Jarka Ruus: High Druid of Shannara, Book 1 (Abridged)

Thermodynamics is a macroscopic science concerned with properties such as pressure, temperature, chemical potential, and volume. Unlike quantum mechanics, thermodynamics is not based on a specific molecular model and therefore it is unexpected by our changing concepts of atoms and molecules. Indeed, the major foundations of thermodynamics were laid long before detailed atomic theories became available. On the negative side, equations derived from laws of thermodynamics do not provide us with a m…