User:Kpedersen1/Bolt (Entropy)
The Bolt is a useful (though not neccesarily fundamental) unit of entropy. The plural of Bolt is Boltz (not Bolts). Named in honor of Ludwig Boltzmann:
where kB is
A Bolt is similar to a bit in that N Boltz are required to fully describe 2N equally probably states. In this sense Boltz can be considered a binary unit of entropy. However, it cannot be stressed enough that this is not meant to imply that entropy is binary or quantized. At this time, it is merely a useful unit for studying entropy at the fundamental level of kB.
Since entropy is additive, if two seperate systems (with entropies S1 and S2 respectively) are brought in contact with one another to form a combined system, their resulting entropy S3 = S1 + S2. This generalization readily applies to Boltz; such that if S1 = 1 Bolt and S2 = 2 Boltz, S3 = 3 Boltz.