The statistical-mechanical definition: S = k_B ln W, where W is the number of microstates consistent with the macrostate.
Boltzmann entropy formula
Related concepts
- Boltzmann constant (k_B)
- Entropy (thermodynamic)
- Entropy (thermodynamic)
- Partition function
- Probability measure P
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Canonical ensemble
- Membrane physics
- Molecular motors (physics)
- Colloid physics
- Linear response theory
- Aerosol-cloud interaction (Twomey)
- DNA mechanics (Bustamante stretching)
- TST (Eyring 1935)
- Jarzynski (1997)
- ETH (Deutsch-Srednicki)
- Jarzynski (quantum)
- Crooks (1999)
- Landauer principle (1961)
- Third law (quantum)