Timeline for My Misconception of Entropy
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 7:54 | comment | added | Buck Thorn♦ | @M.Farooq It seems you are channeling Kuhn and other philosophers. Granted it is a chore to read something written in those days. Clausius was apparently mathematically minded and attempted to derive thermodynamic principles on a sound mathematical basis. Therefore dense and tough going for non-mathematicians. It would take some time to become comfortable with his style but maybe not a whole year :-) | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 7:49 | history | edited | Buck Thorn♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:54 | comment | added | ACR | Trying to read the original work of Clausius will require a year to understand where he was coming from and what was going on in his mind when he came up with this idea. His book is available in English. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:53 | comment | added | ACR | Yes, I am not fully satisfied with the wordings of "energy dispersal." Frank Lambert, who was behind this terminology indeed did a big service by getting rid of order-disorders mythology from many textbooks. On the contrary, he also introduced "energy dispersal" concept. Which is a bigger evil entropy or energy dispersal? Only time will tell. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:44 | history | edited | Buck Thorn♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:38 | comment | added | Buck Thorn♦ | The topic deserves going through the examples in more detail, including those in the comments to the OP. I find the idea of dispersal of energy appealing at times but not entirely satisfying. For instance, in an isolated system (say a gas in an adiabatic box) what exactly do you mean by energy "dispersal"? Are you talking about the kinetic theory of gases? The Boltzmann distribution? | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:33 | comment | added | Buck Thorn♦ | @M.Farooq For a gas you need to describe more possible arrangements, each unique, than in a liquid, to describe the system. Similarly on going from solid to liquid (where the difference is more striking). For a simple description of a solid all possible arrangements can be considered permutations of one template. Once you describe that one template and the way of permuting positions you are done. For liquids you are somewhere inbetween. You see this e.g. in g(r). | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 18:54 | comment | added | ACR | How would we define regularity at molecular level? Is it periodicity? How would explain regularity in liquids vs. gases? | |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 15:56 | history | edited | Buck Thorn♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 15:39 | history | answered | Buck Thorn♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |