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Willard Gibbs, Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids The concept of entropy is described by two principal approaches, the macroscopic perspective of classical thermodynamics, and the microscopic description central to statistical mechanics. The classical approach defines entropy in terms of macroscopically measurable physical properties, such as bulk mass, volume, pressure, and ...
The entropy of the unknown result of the next toss of the coin is maximized if the coin is fair (that is, if heads and tails both have equal probability 1/2). This is the situation of maximum uncertainty as it is most difficult to predict the outcome of the next toss; the result of each toss of the coin delivers one full bit of information.
Thermodynamics. 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 coffee can be mixed together, but cannot be "unmixed"; a piece of wood can be burned, but cannot be "unburned". The word 'entropy' has entered popular usage to refer to a lack of ...
The defining expression for entropy in the theory of information established by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 is of the form: where is the probability of the message taken from the message space M, and b is the base of the logarithm used. Common values of b are 2, Euler's number e, and 10, and the unit of entropy is shannon (or bit) for b = 2, nat ...
Full entropy. In cryptography full entropy is a property of an output of a random number generator. The output has full entropy if it cannot practically be distinguished from an output of a theoretical perfect random number source (has almost n bits of entropy for an n-bit output). [1]
Interpreted in this way, Boltzmann's formula is the most basic formula for the thermodynamic entropy. Boltzmann's paradigm was an ideal gas of N identical particles, of which Ni are in the i -th microscopic condition (range) of position and momentum. For this case, the probability of each microstate of the system is equal, so it was equivalent ...
An enthalpy–entropy chart, also known as the H–S chart or Mollier diagram, plots the total heat against entropy, [1] describing the enthalpy of a thermodynamic system. [2] A typical chart covers a pressure range of 0.01–1000 bar, and temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. [3] It shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy , pressure and ...
Entropy estimation. In various science/engineering applications, such as independent component analysis, [1] image analysis, [2] genetic analysis, [3] speech recognition, [4] manifold learning, [5] and time delay estimation [6] it is useful to estimate the differential entropy of a system or process, given some observations.