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Re: Thermodynamics essay



At 04:00 PM 10/5/01 -0500, RAUBER, JOEL wrote:

"It [entropy] depends not only on the state of the system, but also on how
much of a description I've been given."

I stand by that.

This implies that entropy is not a state variable of a system (function of
state). Many people like to insist that it is a state variable. Comments?

Ugh. Good question. These are deep issues.

I added a new section to the essay addressing this point. See if it helps:
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/thermo-laws.htm#sec-peculiar-s