The Gibbs Paradox: Lessons from Thermodynamics
The Gibbs paradox in statistical mechanics is often taken to indicate that already in the classical domain particles should be treated as fundamentally indistinguishable. This paper shows, on the contrary, how one can recover the thermodynamical account of the entropy of mixing, while treating state...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/5/328 |