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Response to Nagle’s Criticism of My Proposed Definition of the Entropy

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In a recent paper, Nagle criticized the new definition of entropy that I had proposed in an earlier work. In the examples for which Nagle claims my definition fails, he took a formula that I had derived for one set of experiments and used it to represent my definition for other experiments. However, the formulas obtained from my definition depend on the specific experimental observables. If my definition is correctly applied to Nagle’s experiments, no contradictions remain.

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  1. Physics Department, Carnegie MellonUniversity, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217, USA

    Robert H. Swendsen

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Swendsen, R.H. Response to Nagle’s Criticism of My Proposed Definition of the Entropy. J Stat Phys 117, 1063–1070 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-004-5716-4

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