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- Title
On the Relationship between Entropy and Information.
- Authors
Shafiee, Afshin; Karimi, Majid
- Abstract
In this paper we analyze the relationship between entropy and information in the context of the mixing process of two identical ideal gases. We will argue that entropy has a special information-based feature that is enfolded in the statistical entropy, but the second law does not include it directly. Therefore, in some given processes in thermodynamics where there is no matter and energy interaction between the system and the environment, the state of the system may go toward a situation of lower probability to increase the observer's information about the environment. This is a kind of information-based interaction in which the total entropy is not constrained by the second law.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION theory in physics; IDEAL gas law; SECOND law of thermodynamics
- Publication
Physics Essays, 2007, Vol 20, Issue 3, p487
- ISSN
0836-1398
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.4006/1.3153419