WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Print ISSN: 1109-2750, E-ISSN: 2224-2872
Volume 20, 2021
Some Implications of a Scale Invariant Model of Statistical Mechanics to Boltzmann versus Shannon Entropy in Thermodynamics and Information Theory
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Abstract: A scale invariant model of statistical mechanics is applied for a comparative study of Boltzmann’s entropy in thermodynamics versus Shannon’s entropy in information theory. The implications of the model to the objective versus subjective aspects of entropy as well as Nernst-Planck statement of the third law of thermodynamics are also discussed.