On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jesse Mazer <laserma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The entropy is defined not in terms of some vague notion of the "number of > ways the system could have gotten into" its present microstate, but rather > as the number of possible microstates the system might be in at this moment > given that we only know the macrostate it's in at this moment. > Minor correction, I meant to say that the entropy is defined "in terms of" the number of microstates associated with the given macrostate--it isn't defined as the number of microstates itself, but rather the logarithm of that number (times Boltzmann's constant, if we're talking physical entropy rather than informational). Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
