Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
7-2016
Abstract
This article highlights the limitations of typicality accounts of thermodynamic behavior so as to promote an alternative line of research: understanding and accounting for the success of the techniques and equations physicists use to model the behavior of systems that begin away from equilibrium. This article also takes steps in this promising direction. It examines a technique commonly used to model the behavior of an important kind of system: a Brownian particle that has been introduced to an isolated fluid at equilibrium. It also accounts for the success of the model, by identifying and grounding the technique's key assumptions.
Discipline
Philosophy | Philosophy of Science
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Philosophy of Science
Volume
83
Issue
3
First Page
393
Last Page
411
ISSN
0031-8248
Identifier
10.1086/685744
Publisher
Philosophy of Science Association
Citation
LUCZAK, Joshua.(2016). On how to approach the approach to equilibrium. Philosophy of Science, 83(3), 393-411.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3601
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1086/685744