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    Josiah Willard Gibbs (/ɡɪbz/; February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics...
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  • Section of the society and named for Professor Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) of Yale University. Gibbs, whose formulation of the Phase Rule founded a new...
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    distributions are derived from Gibbs' inequality, including Fano's inequality. It was first presented by J. Willard Gibbs in the 19th century. Suppose that...
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  • statistical thermodynamics formulation established by Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs in the 1870s are similar to the information entropy by Claude Shannon...
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  • 1865. A complete theoretical treatment of the subject was given by J. Willard Gibbs in his work On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (1875-8)...
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  • quaternions by J. Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside near the end of the 19th century, and most of the notation and terminology was established by Gibbs and Edwin...
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  • particular cases of the Gibbs Equations of Josiah Willard Gibbs: the Kelvin equation is the constant temperature case, and the Gibbs–Thomson equation is the...
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  • ringing artifacts in signal processing. It is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs. The Gibbs phenomenon is a behavior of the Fourier series of a function with...
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  • Gibbs, J. Willard (October 1993). The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs (Vol. 1). Ox Bow Press. ISBN 0-918024-77-3. and in Gibbs, J. Willard (February...
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  • The entropy of this distribution is given by the Gibbs entropy formula, named after J. Willard Gibbs. For a classical system (i.e., a collection of classical...
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  • Clausius, between the years 1873-76 the American mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs published a series of three papers, the most famous one being the paper...
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  • describe a single system. The concept of an ensemble was introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902. A thermodynamic ensemble is a specific variety of statistical...
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  • Phase rule (redirect from Gibbs phase rule)
    Press. ISBN 9780198769866. OCLC 1013164457. Gibbs, Josiah W. (1906). Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs. Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 1136910263. Ehlers...
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    minimum in free energy, and so is resistant to small fluctuations. J. Willard Gibbs described two criteria for a metastable phase: that it must remain...
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  • students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs by Edwin Bidwell Wilson. For example, in Anthony Everett (2013), The...
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    maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Gibbs, Willard (1993). The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs, Volume One: Thermodynamics. Ox Bow Press....
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    343–524. Gibbs, J. Willard (1993). The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs - Volume One. Ox Bow Press. ISBN 0-918024-77-3. Gibbs, J. Willard (1994)....
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  • of scientists are rarely if ever used this way. In 1876, physicist J. Willard Gibbs, building on the work of Clausius, Hermann von Helmholtz and others...
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    In statistical mechanics, the Gibbs algorithm, introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902, is a criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the...
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    students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs. Yale bicentennial publications. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 125. hdl:2027/mdp...
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  • a monograph on his theories of the chemical bond. Based on work by J. Willard Gibbs, it was known that chemical reactions proceeded to an equilibrium determined...
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    of J. Willard Gibbs, Ph.D, LL. D., edited by W.R. Longley, R.G. Van Name, Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1928, volume 1, pp. 55–353. Maxwell, J.C. (1867)...
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    probability of a microstate. The Gibbs entropy was defined by J. Willard Gibbs in 1878 after earlier work by Boltzmann (1872). The Gibbs entropy translates over...
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    students of mathematics and physics. Founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs, Ph.D., LL.D." The first chapter covers vectors in three spatial dimensions...
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    students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs. Yale University Press. T. Levi-Civita; U. Amaldi (1949). Lezioni di...
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    scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs in Two Volumes. Vol. 1. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906. p. 11. Retrieved 26 February 2011. J. A. McGovern,"2.5 Entropy"...
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    published in March 1902, is a work of scientific literature by Josiah Willard Gibbs which is considered to be the foundation of modern statistical mechanics...
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  • Exergy (section Gibbs)
    "from work", but the concept had been earlier developed by JWillard Gibbs (the namesake of Gibbs free energy) in 1873. Energy is neither created nor destroyed...
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  • Σpi log pi for the entropy of a single gas particle 1878 – J. Willard Gibbs defines the Gibbs entropy: the probabilities in the entropy formula are now...
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  • quantifier (there exists) 1897 · middle dot (for dot product) 1902 J. Willard Gibbs × multiplication sign (for cross product) ∨ logical disjunction (a...
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