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Why entropy tends to maximum?

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It is argued that the maximum entropy is a requirement of the conventional mechanical equilibrium condition, i.e., the total virtual work of all the forces including random forces on all the elements (particles) of a mechanical system should vanish for the systems to stay in thermodynamic equilibrium. This is an attempt to give the maximum entropy principle, considered by many as only an inference principle based on a subjective quantity such as entropy, the status of a fundamental physics law.
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hal-00140657 , version 1 (09-04-2007)
hal-00140657 , version 2 (22-08-2007)
hal-00140657 , version 3 (17-10-2007)
hal-00140657 , version 4 (23-11-2007)
hal-00140657 , version 5 (28-01-2008)

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Qiuping Wang. Why entropy tends to maximum?. 2007. ⟨hal-00140657v1⟩
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