The quantitative content of statistical mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.08.012zbMath1329.82051OpenAlexW1932520202MaRDI QIDQ905670

David Wallace

Publication date: 27 January 2016

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.2015.08.012

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsstatistical mechanicsemergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Physics (00A79)

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