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From: fujimoto@u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto)
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Subject: Re: Entropy question
Date: 12 Feb 1998 21:26:27 GMT
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Nick Art <Art@EMBL-Hamburg.DE> writes:

>Dear All,


>I hope if someone could tell me the difference between
>the statistical entropy and thermodynamic entropy.


If by statistical entropy, you mean the entropy defined in
statistical mechanics, it is assumed that it is the same as
the thermodynamic entropy.  Measurements of the entropy using
the methods of statistical mechanics have always yielded the
same result as measurements using the results of thermodynamics.

Bryant Fujimoto

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