• Title of article

    When is a quantity additive, and when is it extensive?

  • Author/Authors

    Hugo Touchette، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    84
  • To page
    88
  • Abstract
    The difference between the terms additivity and extensivity, as well as their respective negations, is critically analyzed and illustrated with a few examples. The concepts of subadditivity, pseudo-additivity, and pseudo-extensivity are also defined.
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    867599