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Article #4349Re: Thermo question for you
From: Leigh Palmer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:52
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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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!news From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) Subject: Re: Thermo question for you Message-ID: <1992Oct2.185257.3410@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University References: <1992Oct1.223858.10776@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:52:57 GMT Lines: 10