The Origins of Time-Asymmetry in Thermodynamics: The Minus First Law

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 525-538

  Brown, Harvey R ^a   Uffink, Jos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entropy; Second law; Statistical mechanics; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042027541     PISSN: 13552198     EISSN: 18792502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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