Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Gibbs , Josiah Willard (2010-09-16), Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, Retrieved on 2012-05-29Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: physics Memes
29 MAY 2012
Thermodynamics Deals with Quantities
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.Folksonomies: thermodynamics
Folksonomies: thermodynamics
At the microscopic level, things are much more complex.