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Starting with primary physical assumptions and their idealization in the form of postulates, this text examines the consequences of these postulates, culminating in the derivation of the fundamental formulas for calculating probabilities in terms of dynamical quantities and concluding with an analysis of the notion of entropy. Solutions. 1970 edition.Penrose, Oliver is the author of 'Foundations of Statistical Mechanics A Deductive Treatment', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486438702 and ISBN 0486438708.
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