The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 5)

In Part 4, I presented a nifty result supporting my claim that classical statistical mechanics reduces to thermodynamics when Boltzmann’s constant approaches zero. I used a lot of physics jargon to explain why I care about this result. I also used some math jargon to carry out my argument.

This may have been off-putting. But to understand the result, you only need to know calculus! So this time I’ll state it without all the surrounding rhetoric, and then illustrate it with an example.

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