caa a22 4500 469031239 CHVBK 20180323132744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01883748 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01883748 Grandy Jr. W. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, 82071, Laramie, Wyoming aut On randomness and thermodynamics [Elektronische Daten] [W. Grandy Jr.] The past decade has witnessed significant advances in our understanding of nonlinear systems, both theoretically and experimentally. In turn, these insights have led to applications over a broad range of subjects, as well as to new interpretations of complex behavior. Inevitably, it seems, there has been a concomitant rush to re-interpret various well-understood aspects of thermodynamic behavior in manybody systems by means of these mechanisms. It is perhaps useful, therefore, to examine these notions critically, and in doing so we are able to illuminate somewhat the origins of, and motivations for, various dubious descriptions of these systems. Among other things, one notices in such discussions an unfortunate focus on "randomness,” rather than on the actual role of probabilities in describing the phenomena. Although valuable insights into some areas of complex behavior have arisen from studies of so-called "deterministic chaos,” we can detect no influence they may have on the predictions of statistical mechanics, and thus conclude that they are of little relevance to the thermodynamic behavior of large systems. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/6(1992-06-01), 853-866 0015-9018 22:6<853 1992 22 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883748 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883748 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Grandy Jr W. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, 82071, Laramie, Wyoming aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/6(1992-06-01), 853-866 0015-9018 22:6<853 1992 22 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer