Boltzmann’s formula is not, though ... So if Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy does not do the job, you must change it so it does do the job.” For Tsallis, thermodynamics is a pillar of physics and must not be ...

The Boltzmann equation tells us that entropy is the ... In thermodynamic entropy, the only special arrangements of particles that change entropy are the ones that change the thermodynamic ...

Should that day come, one of the first inductees would undoubtedly be the astronomer and documentarian Carl Sagan -- and there’s a passage in Eric Johnson’s Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding ...

But if any character is equally probable, Shannon’s formula gets simplified and becomes exactly the same as Boltzmann’s formula for entropy ... lifting the divider doesn’t change the entropy, as the ...

which the entropy formula illuminates. As time marches forward, entropy can only increase and the past is irretrievable. So the book begins with Boltzmann’s suicide and promises to work backward from ...

To explore this model of energy dispersion—or entropy creation, since they are two sides of the same coin—he wisely chose a simple system: an ideal gas in a closed container. Boltzmann ...

(Nanowerk News) Physicists use the Boltzmann equation to calculate the statistical distribution of the particles in a conventional gaseous system. Attempts to apply the equation to so-called “active” ...