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Why entropy tends to maximum?

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We propose an extension of the principle of virtual work of classical mechanics to mechanical systems in random motion, i.e., the total virtual work of all the forces including random ones on all the elements (particles) of a mechanical system in stochastic motion should vanish when the system is in thermodynamic equilibrium. This extension allows us to establish a relation between the fundamental principle of mechanics and the maximum entropy principle for thermodynamics. This is an attempt to give the maximum entropy principle, considered by many as only an inference principle based on the subjectivity of probability and 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-00140657v2⟩
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