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| Nov 1, 2015 at 0:56 | comment | added | N. Virgo | Ah - now I get it. What you've written down is not $S[p_i]$ but $\partial S/\partial p_i$ with Lagrange multipliers. This is the MaxEnt approach to stat mech. Indeed I already know it, and the question is about its extension to systems in which there is time. | |
| Nov 1, 2015 at 0:54 | comment | added | N. Virgo | Can you explain what the terms in this equation mean, and/or give some kind of reference for further reading? It looks rather odd at a first glance - is $p(x)$ the same as $p_i$? (In which case $\sum_i(p(x)-1)$ is zero.) Is $\langle E \rangle$ defined differently from $\sum_i p_i E_i$? (If not, why do both appear in the equation?) | |
| Nov 1, 2015 at 0:08 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Oct 31, 2015 at 23:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 31, 2015 at 23:48 | history | answered | Oscar Heath-Stephens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |