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Entropy maximization in the free expansion process
2005
The entropy maximum principle is applied to obtain the final equilibrium state in the free expansion of a perfect gas. This provides an example where the entropy of an isolated system at equilibrium has an absolute maximum which is not a local maximum.
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- Thermodynamics
- Joint quantum entropy
- Entropy (classical thermodynamics)
- Maximum entropy probability distribution
- Mathematical optimization
- Principle of maximum entropy
- Entropy maximization
- Mathematics
- Configuration entropy
- Maximum entropy thermodynamics
- Maximum entropy spectral estimation
- Free expansion
- Statistical physics
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