Archive for October, 2007
It’s easy to believe, if you imbibe ‘canonical’ statistical mechanics textbooks uncritically, that thermodynamic entropy, defined by , has been successfully ‘reduced’ to statistical mechanical entropy. The situation is more complicated than that, though. Part of the problem is that there are many different non-thermodynamic notions of what entropy is. There is information-theoretic entropy. There [...]
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