The use of the information-theoretic entropy in thermodynamics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.11.004zbMath1223.80001OpenAlexW2078020621MaRDI QIDQ643460

James Ladyman, Stuart Presnell, Anthony J. Short

Publication date: 31 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

entropythermodynamicsinformationirreversibilityinformation-theoretic entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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