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Reinterpreting Boltzmann's H-theorem in the light of Information Theory
David Sands, Jeremy Dunning-Davies
Prompted by the realisation that the statistical entropy of an ideal gas in the micro-canonical ensemble should not fluctuate or change over time, the meaning of the H-theorem is r…
Gender differences in conceptual understanding of Newtonian mechanics: a UK cross-institution comparison
Simon Bates, Robyn Donnelly, Cait MacPhee +3
We present results of a combined study from three UK universities where we investigate the existence and persistence of a performance gender gap in conceptual understanding of Newt…
Confusion in Thermodynamics
Jeremy Dunning-Davies, David Sands
For a long time now, confusion has existed in the minds of many over the meaning of various concepts in thermodynamics. Recently, this point has been brought to people's attention…
Thermodynamic Entropy And The Accessible States of Some Simple Systems
David Sands
Comparison of the thermodynamic entropy with Boltzmann's principle shows that under conditions of constant volume the total number of arrangements in simple thermodynamic systems w…
The Canonical Ensemble and the Central Limit Theorem
D. Sands, J. Dunning-Davies
Some of the more powerful results of mathematical statistics are becoming of increasing importance in statistical mechanics. Here the use of the central limit theorem in conjunctio…