Boltzmann and Gibbs: an attempted reconciliation
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DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2004.11.007zbMATH Open1222.82052arXivcond-mat/0401061OpenAlexW2023630066MaRDI QIDQ640229FDOQ640229
Publication date: 17 October 2011
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: There are three levels of description in classical statistical mechanics, the microscopic/dynamic, the macroscopic/statistical and the thermodynamic. At one end there is a well-used concept of equilibrium in thermodynamics and at the other dynamic equilibrium does not exist in measure-preserving reversible dynamic systems. Statistical mechanics attempts to situate equilibrium at the macroscopic level in the Boltzmann approach and at the statistical level in the Gibbs approach. The aim of this work is to propose a reconciliation between these approaches and to do so we need to reconsider the concept of equilibrium. Our proposal is that the binary property of the system being or not being in equilibrium is replaced by a continuous property of commonness.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401061
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