"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts : universal nature of the statistical entropy -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the Second Law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Variational formulation of equilibrium thermodynamics via entropy and free energy -- 2.1. E…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the second law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Entropy varies -- 2.1. Entropy of an isolated system -- 2.2. Heat reservoir and the Helmholtz free energy -- 2.3. Various reservoirs -- 2…