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111Duvergerian equilibrium — In his 1954 book, Political Parties , Maurice Duverger postulated a relationship between electoral regime and the number of political parties. In particular, he attempted to show that political parties in countries using the first past the post… …
112dynamic equilibrium — lack of change in a system as inputs and outputs remain in balance. If changes do occur, then feedbacks will allow for correction …
113labyrinthine system — the parts of the vestibulocochlear organ concerned with hearing and the maintenance of equilibrium …
114stable equilibrium — condition in which a system that has lost balance tends to regain balance …
115unstable equilibrium — condition in which a system went off balance and is not likely to regain stability …
116Thermodynamics — Annotated color version of the original 1824 Carnot heat engine showing the hot body (boiler), working body (system, steam), and cold body (water), the letters labeled according to the stopping points in Carnot cycle …
117Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) — In thermodynamics, statistical entropy is the modeling of the energetic function entropy using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 with the work of the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. Mathematical… …
118Foundations of Economic Analysis — is a book by Paul A. Samuelson published in 1947 (Enlarged ed., 1983). It sought to demonstrate a common mathematical structure underlying multiple branches of economics from two basic principles: optimizing behavior of agents and stability of… …
119Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics — The philosophy of thermal and statistical physics is one of the major subdisciplines of the philosophy of physics. Its subject matter is classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and related theories. Its central questions include: What is …
120Zeroth law of thermodynamics — The zeroth law of thermodynamics is a generalized statement about thermal equilibrium between bodies in contact. It is the result of the definition and properties of temperaturecite book |last=Reif |first=F. |title= Fundamentals of Statistical… …
