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Maxwell's and Boltzmann's Triumphant Contributions to and Misconceived Interpretations of ThermodynamicsDOI: 10.5541/ijot.5 Keywords: Finite time reversibility , Maxwell's demon , Microscopic systems , Nonstatistical entropy Abstract: The statistical interpretation is discussed and found to be inadequate to explain thermodynamic phenomena. Two alternative approaches to the statistical interpretation are summarized, one purely thermodynamic, and the other quantum-theoretic and thermodynamic.
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