In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference...

into work in a cyclic process." The second law of thermodynamics establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system....

uncertainty. Maximum entropy thermodynamics Maximum entropy spectral estimation Principle of maximum entropy Maximum entropy probability distribution Maximum entropy...

The mathematical expressions for thermodynamic entropy in the statistical thermodynamics formulation established by Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs...

The principle of maximum entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one...

In classical thermodynamics, entropy (from Greek τρoπή (tropḗ) 'transformation') is a property of a thermodynamic system that expresses the direction...

information in telecommunication. Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous...

non-equilibrium thermodynamics include time rate of dissipation of energy (Rayleigh 1873, Onsager 1931, also), time rate of entropy production (Onsager...

Configuration entropy Conformational entropy Enthalpy Entropy Entropy (classical thermodynamics) Entropy (energy dispersal) Entropy of mixing Entropy (order...

description longer. (See article: maximum entropy thermodynamics). Maxwell's demon can (hypothetically) reduce the thermodynamic entropy of a system by using information...

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of...

reconstruct past positions and momenta from the current state. Maximum entropy thermodynamics takes a very different view, considering thermodynamic variables...

The maximum power principle or Lotka's principle has been proposed as the fourth principle of energetics in open system thermodynamics. According to American...

In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process, involving a system and its surroundings, whose direction can be reversed by infinitesimal changes...

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...

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...

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...

In thermodynamics, the interpretation of entropy as a measure of energy dispersal has been exercised against the background of the traditional view, introduced...

(the others being internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, etc.). The change in the free energy is the maximum amount of work that the system can perform in...

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...

idea of heat death stems from the second law of thermodynamics, of which one version states that entropy tends to increase in an isolated system. From this...

and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics as being a particular application of more general...

equally probable. But in thermodynamics, the universe is divided into a system of interest, plus its surroundings; then the entropy of Boltzmann's microscopically...

Energy dissipation and entropy production extremal principles are ideas developed within non-equilibrium thermodynamics that attempt to predict the likely...

components' Gibbs free energy and a maximum of their entropy. Equilibrium thermodynamics differs from non-equilibrium thermodynamics, in that, with the latter,...

(the state of maximum entropy for the system plus its environment). Determining exergy was one of the original goals of thermodynamics. The term "exergy"...

In thermodynamics, entropy is often associated with the amount of order or disorder in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion...

energy. Following the second law of thermodynamics, in conduction and radiation from one body to another, the entropy varies with temperature (reduces the...

thermodynamics for isolated systems states that the entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium tends to increase over time, approaching maximum...

to non-equilibrium systems with the principle of maximum entropy and maximum entropy thermodynamics. Physicists call the result of applying the Gibbs...