Physics of uncertainty, the Gibbs paradox and indistinguishable particles

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2013.08.007MaRDI QIDQ2436286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Demetris Koutsoyiannis

Publication date 21 February 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.08.007

zbMATH Keywords

entropyextensivityGibbs paradoxindistinguishabilityMaxwell-Boltzmann statisticsprobabilityuncertainty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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