Entropy and Information

• Main Author: Volkenstein, Mikhail V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 57
• Subjects: Physics.; Coding theory.; Bioinformatics.; Quantum physics.; Continuum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Physics, general.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Coding and Information Theory.

This is just...entropy, he said, thinking that this explained everything, and he repeated the strange word a few times. 1 ? Karel Capek , “Krakatit” This “strange word” denotes one of the most basic quantities of the physics of heat phenomena, that is, of thermodynamics. Although the concept of entr...

Table of Contents:

• “Reflections on the motive power of fire...”
• The laws of thermodynamics
• Entropy and free energy
• Entropy and probability
• Statistics and mechanics
• Open systems
• Information
• Entropy, information, life.