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Physical significance of entropy or of the second law

Note 11 — SECTION B THE APPLICATION OF CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES IN MOLECULAR PHYSICS.

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The identity of entropy with the logarithm of this state of probability is established by showing that both are equal to the same expression. It seems an easy step from this derivation to BOLTZMANN'S definition of entropy as the "measure of the disorder of the motions in a system of mass points."

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