From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 17 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newscore.univie.ac.at!news.iif.hu!szia From: szia@hanga.enzim.hu (Andras Szilagyi) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Boltzmann vs. thermodynamic entropy Date: 18 Feb 1998 15:04:20 GMT Organization: IIF Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <6ceqim$guo@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hanga.enzim.hu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.1 UNIX) On 18 Feb 1998 14:17:58 -0000, Pentcho Valev wrote: >By the way, why don't you describe an intersting test comparing Boltzmann's >and thermodynamic entropy? I know your answer - read the books| - and will >certainly do so, but meanwhile you, as you have already read them, can >say something interesting - can't you? Otherwise I will have to do this >after reading the books, but this will take time. Just a suggestion. It was Boltzmann who first proved, using very deep considerations, that the thermodynamic entropy and the thermodynamic probability are always proportional with each other (and the proportionality constant is the Boltzmann constant). Perhaps you should read the original work of Boltzmann if you really want to get to the core of these things. I haven't read them myself, but I would like too. Andras .