The entry point into the molecular interpretation of the Second Law of thermodynamics is Boltzmann’s insight, first explored in Section F.5a, that an atom or molecule can possess only certain values of the energy, called its ‘energy levels’.
The entry point into the molecular interpretation of the Second Law of thermodynamicsis Boltzmann’s insight, first explored in Section F.5a, that an atom or moleculecan possess only certain values of the energy, called its ‘energy levels’.