Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Brush , Stephen G. (1966), Kinetic Theory: Irreversible processes, Pergamon, Retrieved on 2012-01-19Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science physics Memes
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
A heavy passage from Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann on the probability of non-uniform states.