Directionality theory and the second law of thermodynamics

Lloyd A. Demetrius and Christian Wolf

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022, vol. 598, issue C

Abstract: The statistical mechanics of molecular collisions in a macroscopic body is encoded by the parameter Thermodynamic entropy — a statistical measure of the number of molecular configurations that correspond to a given macrostate. Irreversibility in the flow of energy in macroscopic bodies is determined by random molecular interactions and expressed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: In isolated systems, that is systems closed to the input of energy and matter, thermodynamic entropy increases.

Keywords: Evolutionary entropy; Thermodynamic entropy; Second law of thermodynamics; Directionality theory; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.127325

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