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From: stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Thermo and prob :Schools of thought
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 23:14:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 23:14:00 1984
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Thermodynamics is certainly true, rigorously.  But what thermo
doesn't give you is a physical definition of entropy.  So maybe
a third school of thought is that thermodynamics is just a para-
meterization without statistical mechanics to define the entropy.

                                                Jim