DanielFilan comments on Entropy and Temperature - Less Wrong

26 Post author: spxtr 17 December 2014 08:04AM

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Comment author: DanielFilan 18 December 2014 11:05:17AM *  1 point [-]

The energy/entropy plot makes total sense, the energy/temperature doesn't really because I don't have a good feel for what temperature actually is, even after reading the "Temperature" section of your argument (it previously made sense because Mathematica was only showing me the linear-like part of the graph). Can you recommend a good text to improve my intuition? Bonus points if this recommendation arrives in the next 9.5 hours, because then I can get the book from my university library.

Comment author: spxtr 18 December 2014 07:46:20PM 1 point [-]

Depends on your background in physics. Landau & Lifshitz Statistical Mechanics is probably the best, but you won't get much out of it if you haven't taken some physics courses.