The use of the information-theoretic entropy in thermodynamics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2007.11.004MaRDI QIDQ643460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Ladyman, Stuart Presnell, Anthony J. Short

Publication date 31 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)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

entropyinformationthermodynamicsirreversibilityinformation-theoretic entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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