Thermodynamic probability: Difference between revisions

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Proportional to the number of equally likely states that a system may attain.

Boltzmann proposed that the entropy S and the thermodynamic probability W were proportional, and Planck subsequently showed that S = k ln W with k Boltzmann's constant. This result is of such fundamental significance in physics that it was carved as an adornment on Boltzmann's gravestone in Vienna.
See third law of thermodynamics.

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