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Microcanonical energy-shell entropy (S(E,V,N)=kB​logΩ(E,V,N;δE))

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If Ω(E,V,N;δE) counts states in a narrow experimental energy window, the Boltzmann entropy is
S(E,V,N)=kB​logΩ(E,V,N;δE).
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Changing the macroscopic resolution δE by a fixed factor changes S only by an additive quantity of order kB​, whereas S itself is of order NkB​ in the thermodynamic limit. The dependence on the precise energy-window width is therefore negligible for macroscopic thermodynamics.

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