Book contents
- The Road to Maxwell's Demon
- The Road to Maxwell's Demon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Thermodynamics
- 3 Classical mechanics
- 4 Time
- 5 Macrostates
- 6 Probability
- 7 Entropy
- 8 Typicality
- 9 Measurement
- 10 The past
- 11 Gibbs
- 12 Erasure
- 13 Maxwell's Demon
- Appendix A Szilard's engine
- Appendix B Quantum mechanics
- References
- Index
7 - Entropy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- The Road to Maxwell's Demon
- The Road to Maxwell's Demon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Thermodynamics
- 3 Classical mechanics
- 4 Time
- 5 Macrostates
- 6 Probability
- 7 Entropy
- 8 Typicality
- 9 Measurement
- 10 The past
- 11 Gibbs
- 12 Erasure
- 13 Maxwell's Demon
- Appendix A Szilard's engine
- Appendix B Quantum mechanics
- References
- Index
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- The Road to Maxwell's DemonConceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, pp. 153 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012