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A less general alternative to the entropy law

January 9, 2008 by kjellstrom, 1 year 46 weeks ago
Comment: 26854

In my opinion, a physical system must not always be isolated in order to fulfill the entropy law. In many applications an alternative formulation would suffice:

“A physical system occupies its possible states in proportion to their probability of occurrence and with respect to the restrictions.”

Then, we would still expect that the most disordered states are the most probable.

Gkm

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