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The Presumed Extensivity of Entropy

T. Grandy Walter

in Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems

Published in print June 2008 | ISBN: 9780199546176
Published online September 2008 | e-ISBN: 9780191720161 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546176.003.0005

Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics

The Presumed Extensivity of Entropy

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This chapter examines the requirement that entropy be an extensive function of extensive variables, along with the possible connection to the indistinguishability of elementary particles.

Keywords: extensivity; distinguishability; extensive variables; elementary particles

Chapter.  5142 words.  Illustrated.

Subjects: mathematical and statistical physics

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