Entropy and Time
arXiv:cond-mat/9907423 · doi:10.1119/1.19084
Abstract
The emergence of a direction of time in statistical mechanics from an underlying time-reversal-invariant dynamics is explained by examining a simple model. The manner in which time-reversal symmetry is preserved and the role of initial conditions are emphasized. An extension of the model to finite temperatures is also discussed.
9 pages, 8eps figures. To appear in the theme issue of the American Journal of Physics on Statistical Physics
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