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Re: Thermo question for you

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From: Leigh Palmer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:52
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I don't like the idea of refering to the "entropy of a microstate" very much.
The entropy of a system which is constrained to be in a microstate such as you
describe is, formally, k ln 2 if the "spheres" are indistinguishable particles
with no internal degrees of freedom and I can similarly simplify all other
aspects of the system. 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? Surely no physical result can be inferred from consideration of such a
system. Are we discussing physics here? 

Leigh
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