On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jesse Mazer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The entropy is defined not in terms of some vague notion of the "number of > ways the system could have gotten into" its present microstate, but rather > as the number of possible microstates the system might be in at this moment > given that we only know the macrostate it's in at this moment. > Minor correction, I meant to say that the entropy is defined "in terms of" the number of microstates associated with the given macrostate--it isn't defined as the number of microstates itself, but rather the logarithm of that number (times Boltzmann's constant, if we're talking physical entropy rather than informational). Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
