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The Principle of Microscopic Reversibility

Author(s) -

Richard C. Tolman

Publication year - 1925

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.11.7.436

Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , climate change , sustainability , macro , management science , computer science , data science , ecology , economics , psychology , biology , neuroscience , programming language

In recent years increasing use has been made of a new postulate which perhaps cannot yet be stated in its final form, but which requires in a general way in the case of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium not only that the total number of molecules leaving a given state in unit time shall on the average equal the number arriving in that state in unit time, but also that the number leaving by any particular path shall on the average be equal to the number arriving by the reverse of that particular path, thus excluding any cyclical maintenance of the equilibrium state.

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