Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 57, Number 3, February 2002
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Page(s) | 305 - 309 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00459-5 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
An information-theoretic formulation of Newton's second law
Department of Physics and Centro de Física dos
Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Received:
9
July
2001
Accepted:
31
October
2001
From the principle of maximum entropy for a closed system in thermal equilibrium, for the first instance a clear relation is shown to exist between total entropy S (in terms of arrangements of particles) and the classical expression for the force acting on a particle in a rotating frame. We determine relationships between arrangement of particles and force in the case of the gravitational and elastic forces.
PACS: 02.30.Xx – Calculus of variations / 02.50.Cw – Probability theory / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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