The product of the rms fluctuations of an extensive thermodynamic variable with that of its conjugate intensive thermodynamic variable is bounded below by k in the entropy representation and by kT in the energy representation. The uncertainty relations of statistical mechanics are equivalent to the stability relations of equilibrium thermodynamics.
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