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    statistical mechanics, Boltzmann's entropy formula (also known as the Boltzmann–Planck equation, not to be confused with the more general Boltzmann equation, which...
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    black-body radiation and Boltzmann's entropy formula, and is used in calculating thermal noise in resistors. The Boltzmann constant has dimensions of...
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  • Boltzmann's quantity H correspond to the thermodynamic entropy? Are the assumptions (especially the assumption of molecular chaos) behind Boltzmann's...
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  • fundamental constants of physics and is named the Boltzmann constant in honor of its discoverer. Boltzmann's entropy describes the system when all the accessible...
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    the entropy is given by: H = k ln ⁡ W {\displaystyle H=k\ln {W}} which is the Boltzmann entropy formula, where k {\textstyle k} is the Boltzmann constant...
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    Gibbs entropy (or equivalently kB times the Shannon entropy), Boltzmann's equation results. In information theoretic terms, the information entropy of a...
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    tombstone bears the inscription of Boltzmann's entropy formula: S = k ⋅ log ⁡ W {\displaystyle S=k\cdot \log W} . Boltzmann's kinetic theory of gases seemed...
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    example of a formula used in science is Boltzmann's entropy formula. In statistical thermodynamics, it is a probability equation relating the entropy S of an...
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  • Eduard Boltzmann (20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906). Boltzmann codes Boltzmann's entropy formula Boltzmann's principle Boltzmann's H-theorem Boltzmann brain...
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  • configurational entropy is given by Boltzmann's entropy formula S = k B ln ⁡ W , {\displaystyle S=k_{B}\,\ln W,} where kB is the Boltzmann constant and W...
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  • lunar crater Boltzmann distribution Boltzmann equation Boltzmann's entropy formula Boltzmann relation Stefan–Boltzmann law Stefan–Boltzmann constant This...
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  • In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. It is proportional to the expectation of the q-logarithm...
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  • being called "Boltzmann's Demon," who runs around reorganizing and dispersing energy, in order to show how the W in Boltzmann's entropy formula relates to...
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    2 ) N . {\displaystyle 6^{N/2}(6/16)^{N/2}=(3/2)^{N}.} Using Boltzmann's entropy formula, we conclude that S 0 = k ln ⁡ ( 3 / 2 ) N = n R ln ⁡ ( 3 / 2...
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  • Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs in the 1870s, in which the concept of entropy is central, Shannon was persuaded to employ the same term 'entropy' for...
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  • \Omega } , it is related to the configuration entropy of an isolated system via Boltzmann's entropy formula S = k B log ⁡ Ω , {\displaystyle S=k_{\text{B}}\log...
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    It is the only distribution for which the entropy as defined by Gibbs entropy formula matches with the entropy as defined in classical thermodynamics. It...
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    1872 to 1875, Ludwig Boltzmann reinforced the statistical explanation of this paradox in the form of Boltzmann's entropy formula, stating that an increase...
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  • call it entropy", von Neumann suggested. "In the first place, a mathematical development very much like yours already exists in Boltzmann's statistical...
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    apply Boltzmann's entropy formula: S = k log ⁡ W {\displaystyle S=k\log W\!} to the modeling of rubber molecules, i.e. the "rubber band entropy model"...
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  • crucial role in the construction of the measure-theoretic entropy of a dynamical system. The entropy of a partition Q {\displaystyle {\mathcal {Q}}} is defined...
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    ) {\displaystyle S(x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n})} be the entropy. Then, Boltzmann's entropy formula gives for the probability distribution function w = A...
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    engines and thermodynamic cycles or by statistical mechanics and Boltzmann's entropy formula S = k ln ⁡ Ω {\displaystyle S=k\ln \Omega } . However, he argued...
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    with respect to the association entropy has with order and disorder began, essentially, with the famous Boltzmann formula, S = k B ln ⁡ W {\displaystyle...
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  • particles. In statistical mechanics, calculations of entropy such as Boltzmann's entropy formula or the Sackur–Tetrode equation must correct the count...
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    first derived by Boltzmann. Boltzmann's fundamental equation S = k ln ⁡ W {\displaystyle S=k\,\ln W} relates the thermodynamic entropy S to the number...
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  • being played in reverse. See Boltzmann's second law as a law of disorder. The mathematics behind the arrow of time, entropy, and basis of the second law...
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    the Bekenstein–Hawking formula. The subscript BH either stands for "black hole" or "Bekenstein–Hawking". The black hole entropy is proportional to the...
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  • solution of Boltzmann's gas statistics and entropy equations, at about the same time in 1912. The Sackur–Tetrode equation expresses the entropy S {\displaystyle...
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    equilibrium state, the entropy will have increased or have stayed the same relative to the previous equilibrium state. Boltzmann's H-theorem, however, proves...
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