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- From: xie@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Yan-bo Xie)
- Subject: Re: Entropy
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.032415.17091@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:24:15 GMT
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- From article <Aug.19.22.04.37.1992.17693@pilot.njin.net>, by jmgreen@pilot.njin.net (Jim Green):
- >
- >
- > The concept of entropy seems to have two geneses:
- >
- > From the Carnot cycle via the concept of temperature
- >
- > or
- >
- > From the notion of the maximum in the number of possible states ie
- > statistics.
- >
- > But I don't recall any text's showing that these are equivalent
- > derivations. Can someone give me a reference or two????
- >
- > Thanks, Jim Green
- > --
- The best reference I would suggest about this is the
- book by Rief(sp?) <<Statistical Physics>> in the
- UCB course series.
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