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:'' "Energy has to do with possibilities. Entropy has to do with the probabilities of those possibilities happening. It takes energy and performs a further epistemological step." '' '''Constantino Tsallis''' <ref>http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Tsallis.htm</ref> | :'' "Energy has to do with possibilities. Entropy has to do with the probabilities of those possibilities happening. It takes energy and performs a further epistemological step." '' '''Constantino Tsallis''' <ref>http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Tsallis.htm</ref> | ||
'''Entropy''' was first described by [[Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius]] in 1865 <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.18652010702 R. Clausius "Ueber verschiedene für die Anwendung bequeme Formen der Hauptgleichungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie", Annalen der Physik und Chemie '''125''' pp. 353-400 (1865)]</ref>. The [[statistical mechanics | statistical mechanical]] desciption is due to [[Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann]] (Ref. ?) | '''Entropy''' was first described by [[Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius]] in 1865 <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.18652010702 R. Clausius "Ueber verschiedene für die Anwendung bequeme Formen der Hauptgleichungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie", Annalen der Physik und Chemie '''125''' pp. 353-400 (1865)]</ref>. The [[statistical mechanics | statistical mechanical]] desciption is due to [[Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann]] (Ref. ?). | ||
==Classical thermodynamics== | ==Classical thermodynamics== | ||
In [[classical thermodynamics]] one has the entropy, <math>S</math>, | In [[classical thermodynamics]] one has the entropy, <math>S</math>, | ||
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*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.881363 Joel L. Lebowitz "Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow", Physics Today '''46''' pp. 32-38 (1993)] | *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.881363 Joel L. Lebowitz "Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow", Physics Today '''46''' pp. 32-38 (1993)] | ||
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023715732166 Milan M. Ćirković "The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann–Schuetz Argument", Foundations of Physics '''33''' pp. 467-490 (2003)] | *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023715732166 Milan M. Ćirković "The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann–Schuetz Argument", Foundations of Physics '''33''' pp. 467-490 (2003)] | ||
Books: | Books: | ||
* Steven F. Savitt (Ed.) "Time's Arrows Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time", Cambridge University Press (1997) ISBN 0521599458 | * Steven F. Savitt (Ed.) "Time's Arrows Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time", Cambridge University Press (1997) ISBN 0521599458 | ||
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* Arieh Ben-Naim "Entropy and the Second Law Interpretation and Misss-Interpretations", World Scientific Publishing (2012) ISBN 978-981-4407-55-7 | * Arieh Ben-Naim "Entropy and the Second Law Interpretation and Misss-Interpretations", World Scientific Publishing (2012) ISBN 978-981-4407-55-7 | ||
* Arieh Ben-Naim "Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe: What We Know and What We Do Not Know" World Scientific Publishing (2015) ISBN 978-981-4651-66-0 | * Arieh Ben-Naim "Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe: What We Know and What We Do Not Know" World Scientific Publishing (2015) ISBN 978-981-4651-66-0 | ||
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4879553 Jose M. G. Vilar and J. Miguel Rubi "System-size scaling of Boltzmann and alternate Gibbs entropies", Journal of Chemical Physics '''140''' 201101 (2014)] | *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4879553 Jose M. G. Vilar and J. Miguel Rubi "System-size scaling of Boltzmann and alternate Gibbs entropies", Journal of Chemical Physics '''140''' 201101 (2014)] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== |