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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>, |