What Is Entropy – A Generalized Outlook and Application to Living Systems

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45899-1_4" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-45899-1_4</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What Is Entropy – A Generalized Outlook and Application to Living Systems
Original language description
Thermodynamics of open systems offers a new concept for description of real material objects including the living systems. The second law of thermodynamics can be interpreted as an evolution law of all material systems, which are in interaction with surroundings. The most important quantity is entropy, which is defined by balance of entropy. The production of entropy gives information about the processes in the systems. The convexity of entropy informs about the stability of the system states. Under the appropriate outer conditions, the fluctuations can force the systems to instability. Consequence is the creation or decay of new dissipative structures. When the new dissipative structure appears, the system is going out of the thermodynamic equilibrium to the new stable state. However, if the dissipative structure disappears, the systems will tend to the thermodynamic equilibrium. From the biological point of view, the thermodynamic equilibrium equals to death.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Thermal Physics and Thermal Analysis. From Macro to Micro, Highlighting Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Nanomaterials
ISBN
978-3-319-45897-7
Number of pages of the result
30
Pages from-to
79-108
Number of pages of the book
567
Publisher name
Springer International Publishing AG
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
UT code for WoS chapter
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