The coarse-graining approach to statistical mechanics: how blissful is our ignorance?

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00037-5MaRDI QIDQ720478zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Katinka Ridderbos

Publication date 15 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/S1355-2198(01)00037-5

zbMATH Keywords

entropycoarse-grainingGibbs ensemble approachzeroth law of thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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