Timeline for Why is entropy a quantification of the typical fluctuation of internal energy around the expected value?
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Feb 13 at 18:28 | answer | added | LPZ | timeline score: 3 | |
Feb 13 at 15:27 | comment | added | Ján Lalinský | Fluctuation of energy is defined through expected average of difference squared $(E-\langle E \rangle)^2$. | |
Feb 13 at 15:23 | comment | added | Ján Lalinský | That makes no sense. For macroscopic systems with large number of states around $\langle E \rangle$, the most probable value of $E$ is the average value, thus the most probable vaue of $E - \langle E \rangle $ is zero. | |
Feb 13 at 11:42 | history | asked | Salvatore Manfredi D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |