• impossible. In statistical mechanics, entropy is formulated as a statistical property using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was...
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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize...
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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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    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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    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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    holographic principle. The second law of thermodynamics requires that black holes have entropy. If black holes carried no entropy, it would be possible to violate...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference...
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  • uncertainty. Entropy may also refer to: Entropy (classical thermodynamics), thermodynamic entropy in macroscopic terms, with less emphasis on the statistical explanation...
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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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    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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    Currently quantum thermodynamics addresses the emergence of thermodynamic laws from quantum mechanics. It differs from quantum statistical mechanics in the...
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  • assemblies of microscopic entities. Sometimes called statistical physics or statistical thermodynamics, its applications include many problems in a wide...
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  • an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy, rather...
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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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    The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system at thermodynamic equilibrium approaches a constant value when its temperature...
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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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  • Negentropy (redirect from Negative entropy)
    Planck, M. (1945). Treatise on Thermodynamics. Dover, New York. Antoni Planes, Eduard Vives, Entropic Formulation of Statistical Mechanics Archived 2008-10-11...
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    of thermodynamics must be statistical in nature; that is, it must be merely highly unlikely, but not impossible, that a system will lower in entropy. In...
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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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  • rudimentary statement of the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of 'transformation-energy' or entropy, i.e. energy lost to dissipation and friction...
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    In thermodynamics, a temperature–entropy (T–s) diagram is a thermodynamic diagram used to visualize changes to temperature (T ) and specific entropy (s)...
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    was meant to represent the entropy of thermodynamics, the H-theorem was an early demonstration of the power of statistical mechanics as it claimed to...
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  • temperature. The entropy of a pure crystalline structure can be 0 J⋅mol−1⋅K−1 only at 0 K, according to the third law of thermodynamics. However, this assumes...
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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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    thermodynamics is one of the four principal laws of thermodynamics. It provides an independent definition of temperature without reference to entropy...
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    Heat (redirect from Heat (thermodynamics))
    Likewise, 'the entropy of the Solar System' is not defined in classical thermodynamics. It has not been possible to define non-equilibrium entropy, as a simple...
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    noisy-channel coding theorem. Entropy in information theory is directly analogous to the entropy in statistical thermodynamics. The analogy results when the...
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