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Entropy and Counting
Year
2012
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
30m
Rating
TVPG
Publication Information
The Great Courses
Summary
After establishing in previous episodes that the arrow of time must be due to entropy, begin a deep exploration of this phenomenon. In the 1870s, physicist Ludwig Boltzmann proposed a definition of entropy that explains why it increases toward the future. Analyze this idea in detail.