Liouville's theorem is compatible with the second law of thermodynamics.
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Liouville's theorem governs phase space volume conservation in Hamiltonian mechanics, and statistical mechanics reconciles this reversible microscopic behavior with the irreversible entropy increase dictated by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics.
2020 · cited by 2
Paper [5] discusses how microscopic time-reversal-invariant laws, including those underlying statistical mechanics, are reconciled with macroscopic irreversibility.
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Revisions of the Phenomenological and Statistical Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
2024 · cited by 0
Paper [7] reviews the historical relationship between Liouville's equation, the H-theorem, and the statistical foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.