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To: Kurthend who wrote (148024)1/10/2013 10:47:21 PM
From: Stock Puppy4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213176
 
OT

Well I remember my Thermo prof - the first day of class he apologizes because unlike other disciplines in physics, it cannot be derived from basic principals of physics. The three "laws" are based upon observation and postulates

It describes properties of large systems(macroscopic) but not necessarily individual (microscopic)

It also describes hot air.



To: Kurthend who wrote (148024)1/11/2013 3:02:41 AM
From: zax3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 213176
 
I'm rather enjoying Apple's... entropy. Especially applicable to closed systems.

Amazing that you got 7 recs (so far) just by challenging my statement. X-D

I feel so loved on this board.






To: Kurthend who wrote (148024)1/11/2013 6:58:07 PM
From: shlurker1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213176
 
"…Thermodynamics describes the average behavior of very large numbers of microscopic constituents, and its laws can be derived from statistical mechanics…."



So too is the stock market a " very large numbers of microscopic constituents", but that's where it ends. The difference is, there's no "dp/dt=-dH/dq, dq/dt-d/dp" for each microscopic constituent!


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