Sentences with phrase «macroscopic entropy»

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This is due to an all - pervasive macroscopic temporal asymmetry: entropy, a measure inversely related to the energy...

First, we describe some recent findings showing how to use basic concepts of macroscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics for characterizing the energy and entropy budgets of the climate.

In the gas example, which is more complicated, we may formulate some macroscopic preservation laws and enter them into the entropy maximization procedure as equality constraints of the optimization problem.