Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Brush , Stephen G. (1966), Kinetic Theory: Irreversible processes, Pergamon, Retrieved on 2012-01-19
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    19 JAN 2012

     Uniformity, Non-Uniformity, and Irreversibility

    We must make the following remark: a proof, that after a certain time t1, the spheres must necessarily be mixed uniformly, whatever may be the initial distribution of states, cannot be given. This is in fact a consequence of probability theory, for any non-uniform distribution of states, no matter how improbable it may be, is still not absolutely impossible. Indeed it is clear that any individual uniform distribution, which might arise after a certain time from some particular initial state, ...
    Folksonomies: thermodynamics
    Folksonomies: thermodynamics
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    A heavy passage from Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann on the probability of non-uniform states.

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