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Article #4347Re: Thermo question for you
From: Kenneth Tolman
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 22:42
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 22:42
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Thanks for your reply! >I don't like the idea of refering to the "entropy of a microstate" very much. why not? >I am most distressed by the idea of applying the entropy >concept to a two-particle system. Why on Earth would anyone ever want to do >that? To understand thermodynamics better. Thanks! >Surely no physical result can be inferred from consideration of such a >system. Are we discussing physics here? What are you discussing? I am discussing physics. Why can no physical result be inferred from consideration of such a system? Au contriar! Many physical results can be discovered from studying such a system in detail. Study it if you will, very carefully, and you will see what I am rumbling about... great secrets lie in simple places, perhaps.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!asylum.cs.utah.edu!tolman From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) Subject: Re: Thermo question for you Date: 2 Oct 92 16:42:28 MDT Message-ID: <1992Oct2.164229.24330@hellgate.utah.edu> Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept References: <1992Oct1.223858.10776@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Oct2.185257.3410@sfu.ca> Lines: 21