Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
979493 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2007 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

We focus attention on the particular thermodynamic relation dU=TdS+δW. Using information theory concepts we show that, for a reversible process in which intensive variables change, microscopic considerations related to this thermodynamic relation make the informational contents   of, respectively, dU=TdS+δW and MaxEnt equivalent. The pertinent demonstration is obtained when trying to ascertain the corresponding equilibrium microscopic probability distribution.

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