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- From: jmgreen@pilot.njin.net (Jim Green)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Entropy
- Message-ID: <Aug.19.22.04.37.1992.17693@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:04:38 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- The concept of entropy seems to have two geneses:
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- From the Carnot cycle via the concept of temperature
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- From the notion of the maximum in the number of possible states ie
- statistics.
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- But I don't recall any text's showing that these are equivalent
- derivations. Can someone give me a reference or two????
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- Thanks, Jim Green
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