In praise of Clausius entropy: reassessing the foundations of Boltzmannian statistical mechanics

DOI10.1007/s10701-021-00437-wOpenAlexW3160953394MaRDI QIDQ2241440

Christopher Gregory Weaver

Publication date: 9 November 2021

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03745

zbMATH Keywords

entropystatistical mechanicscausationirreversibilityBoltzmann

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) History of classical thermodynamics (80-03) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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