In the microcanonical ensemble, the microcanonical energy-shell entropy is the Boltzmann entropy
For a macroscopic system, changing the small energy resolution by a fixed factor changes only by a nonextensive additive term, while . Its relative effect therefore vanishes in the thermodynamic limit.
The thermodynamic temperature, pressure, and chemical potential are defined in the entropy representation by
Thus
or, equivalently, the first law of thermodynamics in fundamental form is