• In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference...
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    into work in a cyclic process." The second law of thermodynamics establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system....
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  • uncertainty. Maximum entropy thermodynamics Maximum entropy spectral estimation Principle of maximum entropy Maximum entropy probability distribution Maximum entropy...
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  • The principle of maximum entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one...
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    non-equilibrium thermodynamics include time rate of dissipation of energy (Rayleigh 1873, Onsager 1931, also), time rate of entropy production (Onsager...
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    information in telecommunication. Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous...
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  • In classical thermodynamics, entropy (from Greek τρoπή (tropḗ) 'transformation') is a property of a thermodynamic system that expresses the direction...
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    Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of...
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    In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process, involving a system and its surroundings, whose direction can be reversed by infinitesimal changes...
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    components' Gibbs free energy and a maximum of their entropy. Equilibrium thermodynamics differs from non-equilibrium thermodynamics, in that, with the latter,...
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  • mathematics of statistical thermodynamics worked out by Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs in the 1870s, in which the concept of entropy is central, Shannon...
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    description longer. (See article: maximum entropy thermodynamics). Maxwell's demon can (hypothetically) reduce the thermodynamic entropy of a system by using information...
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    The maximum power principle or Lotka's principle has been proposed as the fourth principle of energetics in open system thermodynamics. According to American...
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    reconstruct past positions and momenta from the current state. Maximum entropy thermodynamics takes a very different view, considering thermodynamic variables...
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  • In thermodynamics, the interpretation of entropy as a measure of energy dispersal has been exercised against the background of the traditional view, introduced...
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  • Configuration entropy Conformational entropy Enthalpy Entropy Entropy (classical thermodynamics) Entropy (energy dispersal) Entropy of mixing Entropy (order...
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    In thermodynamics, entropy is a numerical quantity that shows that many physical processes can go in only one direction in time. For example, cream and...
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    In thermodynamics, entropy is often associated with the amount of order or disorder in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion...
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  • energy. Following the second law of thermodynamics, in conduction and radiation from one body to another, the entropy varies with temperature (reduces the...
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  • the maximum amount of work). The effects of irreversibility, however, showed this version to be incorrect. This was rectified, in thermodynamics, by incorporating...
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  • Energy dissipation and entropy production extremal principles are ideas developed within non-equilibrium thermodynamics that attempt to predict the likely...
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  • proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and on the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist...
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    Gibbs algorithm (category Entropy and information)
    to non-equilibrium systems with the principle of maximum entropy and maximum entropy thermodynamics. Physicists call the result of applying the Gibbs...
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  • time, the second law of thermodynamics says, the entropy of an isolated system can increase, but not decrease. Thus, entropy measurement is a way of distinguishing...
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    expectation in fact neglects the effect of high entropy. Indeed, according to the second law of thermodynamics, the state having the lowest mixing Gibbs free...
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    spacetime information. As such, entropic gravity is said to abide by the second law of thermodynamics under which the entropy of a physical system tends to...
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    irreversible process increases the total entropy of the system and its surroundings. The second law of thermodynamics can be used to determine whether a hypothetical...
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  • (the state of maximum entropy for the system plus its environment). Determining exergy was one of the original goals of thermodynamics. The term "exergy"...
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    equally probable. But in thermodynamics, the universe is divided into a system of interest, plus its surroundings; then the entropy of Boltzmann's microscopically...
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  • Reversible computing (category Thermodynamics)
    wikidata descriptions as a fallback Maximum entropy thermodynamics – Application of information theory to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, on the...
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