A farewell to entropy: statistical thermodynamics based on information : S=logW
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1. Verfasser: Ben-Naim, Arieh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific c2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-379) and index
1. Introduction -- A brief history of temperature and entropy -- The association of entropy with disorder -- The association of entropy with missing information -- 2. Elements of probability theory -- Introduction -- The axiomatic approach -- The classical definition -- The relative frequency definition -- Independent events and conditional probability -- Bayes' Theorem -- Random variables, average, variance and correlation -- Some specific distributions -- Generating functions -- The law of large numbers -- 3. Elements of information theory -- A qualitative introduction to information theory -- Definition of Shannon's information and its properties -- The various interpretations of the quantity H -- The assignment of probabilities by the maximum uncertainty principle -- The missing information and the average number of binary questions needed to acquire it -- The false positive problem, revisited -- The urn problem, revisited --
- 4. Transition from the general MI to the thermodynamic MI -- MI in binding systems: one kind of information -- Some simple processes in binding systems -- MI in an ideal gas system: two kinds of information. The Sackur-Tetrode Equation -- Comments -- 5. The structure of the foundations of statistical thermodynamics -- The isolated system; the micro-canonical ensemble -- System in a constant temperature; The canonical ensemble -- The classical analog of the canonical partition function -- The re-interpretation of the Sackur-Tetrode expression from informational considerations -- Identifying the parameter ß for an ideal gas -- Systems at constant temperature and chemical potential; The grand canonical ensemble -- Systems at constant temperature and pressure; The isothermal isobaric ensemble -- The mutual information due to intermolecular interactions -- 6. Some simple applications -- Expansion of an ideal gas -- Pure, reversible mixing; The first illusion --
- Pure assimilation process; The second illusion -- Irreversible process of demixing coupled with expansion -- Reversible assimilation coupled with expansion -- Reflections on the processes of mixing and assimilation -- A pure spontaneous deassimilation process -- A process involving only change in the momentum distribution -- A process involving change in the intermolecular interaction energy -- Some baffling experiments -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Appendices -- A: Newton's binomial theorem and some useful identities involving binomial coefficients -- B: The total number of states in the Fermi-Dirac and the Bose-Einstein statistics -- C: Pair and triplet independence between events -- D: Proof of the inequality R (X, Y) <̲ 1 for the correlation coefficient -- E: The Stirling approximation -- F: Proof of the form of the function H -- G: The method of Lagrange undetermined multipliers -- H: Some inequalities for concave functions -- The MI for the continuous case --
- J: Identical and indistinguishable (ID) particles -- The equivalence of the Boltzmann's and Jaynes' procedures to obtain the fundamental distribution of the canonical ensemble -- L: An alternative derivation of the Sackur-Tetrode equation -- M: Labeling and un-labeling of particles -- N: Replacing a sum by its maximal term -- O: The Gibbs paradox (GP) -- P: The solution to the three prisoners' problem
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