On the thermodynamics of classical micro-canonical systems

Abstract

We study the configurational probability distribution of a mono-atomic gas with a finite number of particles N in the micro-canonical ensemble. We give two arguments why the thermodynamic entropy of the configurational subsystem involves Renyi's entropy function rather than that of Tsallis. The first argument is that the temperature of the configurational subsystem is equal to that of the kinetic subsystem. The second argument is that the instability of the pendulum, which occurs for energies close to the rotation threshold, is correctly reproduced.

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