In the physical sciences, order and disorder refer to the presence or absence of some symmetry or correlation in a many … disorder-order relationship. In this paper a series of experiments are devised and executed to reveal the power law … relationship between order and disorder, and to determine that the power law is indeed an important regular pattern in the phase …

In the physical sciences, order and disorder refer to the presence or absence of some symmetry or correlation in a many … disorder-order relationship. In this paper a series of experiments are devised and executed to reveal the power law … relationship between order and disorder, and to determine that the power law is indeed an important regular pattern in the phase …

approach of irreversibility. They allow us to evaluate both the technological level and the environmental impact of the … irreversible thermodynamic approach, in order to evaluate the inefficiency both of the process and of the production systems, and … the related consequences. Three applications are summarized in order to highlight the possible interest from different …

concept of entropy. We use Boltzmann's approach of the degree of order to give an illustration of the entropy concept. We then …

approach of irreversibility. They allow us to evaluate both the technological level and the environmental impact of the … irreversible thermodynamic approach, in order to evaluate the inefficiency both of the process and of the production systems, and … the related consequences. Three applications are summarized in order to highlight the possible interest from different …

We point out that the fundamental irreversibility of Nature requires the introduction of a suitable measure for the … distance from equilibrium. We show that entropy, which is widely held to be such a measure, suffers from the problem that it … basic physics beyond irreversibility has remained obscure. We present here a simple but transparent physical approach for …

. Moreover, living systems waste heat. This heat is the consequence of the internal irreversibility. Irreversibility is … of living systems, in order to obtain a unifying approach to study them. Indeed, this approach allows us to consider …

formulation the central concept is entropy characterized in terms of equilibrium state variables. We point out that because … thermodynamic changes arise when systems are out of equilibrium and because entropy is not a natural state variable characterizing … resolves some conceptual difficulties related to the interpretation of entropy. We point out that extropy has a fundamental …

We point out that the fundamental irreversibility of Nature requires the introduction of a suitable measure for the … distance from equilibrium. We show that entropy, which is widely held to be such a measure, suffers from the problem that it … basic physics beyond irreversibility has remained obscure. We present here a simple but transparent physical approach for …