The Ehrenfests’ use of toy models to explore irreversibility in statistical mechanics

This article highlights and discusses the Ehrenfests’ use of toy models to explore irreversibility in statistical mechanics. In particular, we explore their urn and P–Q models and highlight that, while the former was primarily used to provide a simple counter-example to Zermelo’s objection to Boltzm...

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Main Authors: LUCZAK, Joshua, ZUCHOWSKI, Lena
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3394
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4651/viewcontent/EhrenfestsUseToyModels_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English