THE TROUBLE WITH ENTROPY

Citation
M. Dehaan et Cd. George, THE TROUBLE WITH ENTROPY, Journal of Plasma Physics, 59, 1998, pp. 619-627
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
ISSN journal
00223778
Volume
59
Year of publication
1998
Part
4
Pages
619 - 627
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3778(1998)59:<619:>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
An understanding of the mechanisms leading to the symmetry breaking of the dynamical description of a large system with respect to the direc tion of time is necessary, but not sufficient to ensure the finding of a functional of the state of the system that would satisfy the requir ements placed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics upon the non-equilib rium entropy S.