He posited that light is a periodic disturbance of a fine-grained media in his paper "Notes on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light." His phenomena are seen as ringing in Fourier series near discontinuities, and his paradox deals with an apparent increase in entropy when two identical samples of gas are mixed. His phase rule describes the number of degrees of freedom in a system, but he is most famous for a function that governs the spontaneity of a chemical reaction. For 10 points, name this man
He posited that light is a periodic disturbance of a fine-grained media in his paper "Notes on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light." His phenomena are seen as ringing in Fourier series near discontinuities, and his paradox deals with an apparent increase in entropy when two identical samples of gas are mixed. His phase rule describes the number of degrees of freedom in a system, but he is most famous for a function that governs the spontaneity of a chemical reaction. For 10 points, name this man whose namesake free energy is defined as H minus TS.
He posited that light is a periodic disturbance of a fine-grained media in his paper "Notes on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light."