part PART ONE Entropy in thermodynamics -- chapter 1 Temperature -- historical developments -- chapter 2 Temperature and heat: a different approach -- chapter 5 Entropy: how it is measured and how it is used -- chapter 6 Entropy in irreversible changes -- chapter PART TWO The statistical interpretation of entropy -- chapter 8 General ideas and development: the definition of a microstate -- chapter Temperature and entropy in statistical mechanics -- chapter 11 Application to gases: (1) -- chapter 12 Application to gases: (2) Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac gases -- FermiiDirac gases -- chapter 13 Fluctuations and Maxwell’s demon -- part PART THREE Entropy at low temperatures -- chapter 14 The third law of thermodynamics -- chapter 15 Absolute temperature and low temperatures -- chapter 16 The third law of thermodynamics and the unattainability of absolute zero -- chapter Notes -- chapter Answers to exercises -- chapter Reading list.