The Kac ring or the art of making idealisations

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00373-1zbMATH Open1465.00012OpenAlexW3083362930MaRDI QIDQ828337FDOQ828337

Authors: Julie Jebeile 

Publication date: 8 January 2021

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-020-00373-1

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zbMATH Keywords

Bolzmann's \(H\)-theoremidealisationKac ringmacroscopic irreversibilitymodel explanationmolecular chaos hypothesisscientific model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Physics (00A79) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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