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To do:

  • technical note that strictly the entropy should be relative to a prior measure. -> Principle of minimum cross-entropy (Kullback-Leibler distance). In thermodynamics we usually assume the "principle of equal a-priori probability" over phase space, so the two are then equivalent.
  • section on philosophical implications regarding the conceptual problems of statistical mechanics, second law, etc.
  • (?) some more algebra, and a simple nonequilibrium example (eg Brownian motion?)

-- Jheald 12:47, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]