Thermodynamic probability
From Glossary of Meteorology
thermodynamic probability
Proportional to the number of equally likely states that a system may attain.
Boltzmann proposed that the entropy S and the thermodynamic probability W were proportional, and Planck subsequently showed that S = k ln W with k Boltzmann's constant. This result is of such fundamental significance in physics that it was carved as an adornment on Boltzmann's gravestone in Vienna.
See third law of thermodynamics.
See third law of thermodynamics.
