From what I remember the Entropy S should be
equal to S = k ln(W) where W is the number of
microstates. Ordered states have a lower number
of microstates, or something like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory
-J.
On 10/11/2013 11:38 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:08:18PM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Nice to see the list is still alive :-) Entropy as
information in disguise. Interesting. Isn't Entropy
related to disorder, that is to say lack of information?
-J.
Something like that. The exact relationship is
S + I = SM
where S is entropy, I is information and SM is the log of total number
of states the system could be in.
Information is sometimes said to be "negentropy", because
\Delta I = - \Delta S
when your system size remains constant over time.
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