21. Welcome To Entropysite.com It consists of copyrighted articles from the Journal of Chemical Education and the Chemical Educator that deal with a modern view of entropy change the http://www.entropysite.com/

what's new links news articles ... biography The content of this Web site has been selected for instructors in general and physical chemistry by Dr. Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles ( professional biography what's new October 2007 Journal of Chemical Education by Occidental College professor emeritus Frank L. Lambert have drawn attention to the century-old non-scientific mantra, entropy-as-disorder, altering the modern textbook landscape. [By April 2007, authors of eighteen chemistry textbooks] had deleted their previous identification of entropy August 2007 The September issue of the Journal of Chemical Education has my article which shows why the statement in some texts (e.g., those numbered 11-13 in December 2005) that "Matter tends to become dispersed" is seriously misleading, It is a misinterpretation of a result from configurational (positional) entropy — itself a viewpoint that should not be introduced to general chemistry students because they then believe that there are two "types" of entropy rather than one. The article concludes with the important statement, "Two factors are necessary for entropy change in chemistry. An increase in thermodynamic entropy is enabled in a process by the motional energy of molecules (that, in chemical reactions, can arise from the energy released from a bond energy change). However, entropy increase is only

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24. Entropy Technical note The entropy is actually k ln( combinations), where k is called Boltzmann s constant and ln means the natural logarithm. http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Entropy/Entropy.html

Entropy Click here to go to the UPSCALE home page. Click here to go to the Physics Virtual Bookshelf Click here to go to the JPU200Y home page. Author This document was written in February 1999 by David M. Harrison, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, mailto:harrison@physics.utoronto.ca . This is version 1.7, date (m/d/y) 09/17/02. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Content License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml INTRODUCTION "A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more varied the kinds of things that it relates and the more extended the area of its applicability. Therefore classical thermodynamics has made a deep impression on me. It is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced, within the areas of the applicability of its basic concepts, will never be overthrown." Einstein (1949) DEFINING THE ENTROPY We shall define the entropy in three different yet equivalent ways.

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26. ENTROPY The Crying of Lot 49 (1965) traces entropy through the theoretical Maxwell s Demon device (the greatest historical challenge to the second law of http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/entropy/index.html

Introduction Thomas Pynchon achieves an unusual synthesis of art and science, and develops the unique character of his ambitious, "post-modern" works with a renaissance conception of continuous knowledge. Engineering principals animate his fiction in literal explorations, and then escalate into larger thematic matter. The Crying of Lot 49 (1965) traces Entropy through the theoretical Maxwell's Demon device (the greatest historical challenge to the second law of thermodynamics), and also extends the property and Demon to metaphorically control and inform the journey of Oedipa Mass. Pynchon's reader travels an analogous odyssey to the protagonist, sorting information, flirting with chaos and circumnavigating truth. Entropy Entropy is a quantity that, in its two contexts, characterizes not only all form and life in the universe, but all signal, language, information and written material ever produced anywhere. There are two fields which define this concept: Thermodynamics is the science of the relations between heat and other forms of energy. It deals with the changes that occur in a system if the energy distribution is unbalanced, therefore it "can be regarded as governing the direction of all physical changes taking place in the universe. With time, the energy within a system will inevitably tend to become distributed in the most probable pattern, which consists of all the individual particles of the system engaging in random, disordered motion" (OED). Thermodynamic entropy is the measure of this disorganization in a system. Furthermore, this "most probable pattern" is actually a state of equal energy among particles, as collisions cause bodies to exchange heat. A closed system inevitably proceeds toward uniformity of energy.

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28. Entropy It used to be a channel found in Battlenet East founded by Physician (aka entropy), Eoe_mime and Sagoter. We either meet in entropy or OP entropy. http://entropyzero.org/

@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); "We Few Still Fear the Fog" My heart races and my soul fills with shear obsidian fear as the fog of war envelopes me..oh lord what a wonderful feeling, I can hear the sounds of battle again... What is Entropy? Why is it called Entropy? It's a meeting place of Broodwar gamers like many other communities or channels. People tend to hang around a community or a channel for a while and become organized for a given period by playing together, learning, making friends etc. Then as time passes and the forces of entropy occur, people gradually move on to other channels or move on in life and the disorganization of these associations prevail. What are Cohesion forces responsible for the channel's existence? The main force of cohesion in entropy is the worship of the Fog of War. Everyone in entropy has a healthy paranoia against hackers. Even after many years of building a reputation as a Fog of War worshiper you will find that your game will always be scrutinized for signs of hacking. If you are caught hacking prepare for public humiliation. However like any group of worshipers they will always try to convert hackers to become Fog of War worshipers. They forgive but never forget. The other force of cohesion is a passion for non money random maps. No one in entropy plays money maps and all dribble at the thought of playing a new unknown balanced map where the fog can be felt strongest.

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30. Entropy entropy. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Tori Amos. We went to a Tori Amos concert in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was awesome. http://s-mitchell.blogspot.com/

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33. EGD: The Entropy Gathering Daemon EGD is an entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don t have this convenient source of random bits. http://egd.sourceforge.net/

EGD: The Entropy Gathering Daemon A userspace substitute for /dev/random, written in perl. One of the nice features of the Linux kernel (and certain *BSD kernels) is the /dev/random device. This is a little character device that gives you random numbers when you read it. In a variety of places scattered throughout the kernel, certain interrupts (network packets arriving, keyboard hits, mouse movement) cause a timestamp and some event information to be hashed into an "entropy pool". The pool, perhaps 4k in size, always contains very random data, but as bits are "stirred" in, a counter is incremented to reflect the fact that the poll is now even more random than before. When you read from /dev/random, you get a hashed portion of the pool, and the counter is decremented. This gives you high quality cryptographically strong random data. The Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), along with many other encryption routines (pgp, ssh, even the sequence-number selection algorithm used by the kernel's TCP stack), use this device to seed a secure random number generator. Encryption uses lots of random data, and hybrid public-key/ symmetric-cipher encryption uses even more. EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have this convenient source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool.

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35. Entropy Bound entropy Bound. physical reflections and refractions at the boundaries of science and culture but really, things can only get so out of hand. http://entropybound.blogspot.com/

Entropy Bound physical reflections and refractions at the boundaries of science and culture ...but really, things can only get so out of hand. Sunday, March 30, 2008 Walter Wagner: "Nuclear Physicist", Crook If he hadn't made the front page of the NYT website yesterday morning, I'd be less inclined to be posting this, but Discover's blog has been doing their homework (didn't take much digging What a creep. Posted by Peter at 3:09 PM 1 comments Saturday, March 29, 2008 Slow News Day Getting up early to get to the circus today (we live down the street from Madison Square Garden), I managed to catch this peach on the NYT website front page: Slow news day, I guess. Posted by Peter at 4:40 PM 0 comments Friday, March 28, 2008 Math meets Physics I dropped by a interesting symposium yesterday at SUNY Stony Brook (a university near to Brookhaven, that is the academic partner of BSA, our management company), " The Stony Brook Dialogues in Mathematics and Physics: A Symposium in Honor of Chen Ning Yang and James H. Simons ". It had a varied and interesting set of talks (none online yet, though) exploring the connections between mathematics and physics, by colleagues and friends of CN Yang (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, when Yang was 35[!]) and Jim Simons (former Chair of the USB Math department, and current president of

36. Entropy, Redundancy And Inequality Measures A comparison of different measures of income and wealth inequality, with a focus on entropy measures. Shows changes in the global disparity of income using http://poorcity.richcity.org/

Inequality Measures Atkinson inequality Z Atkinson = 1-Z MacRae i=1..N (E i ln(A i /E i ))/E total E total /A total nosniktA inequality Z nosniktA i=1..N (A i ln(E i /A i ))/A total A total /E total Theil-T redundancy R Theil = -ln(1-Z Atkinson ) = -ln(Z MacRae total /E total i=1..N (E i ln(A i /E i ))/E total Theil-L redundancy R liehT = -ln(1-Z nosniktA total /A total i=1..N (A i ln(E i /A i ))/A total Symmetric redundancy R sym = -ln(1-Z sym Z Plato artanh(Z Plato = (R Theil Theil Theil +R liehT i=1..N ln(E i /A i E i /E total -A i /A total Symmetric inequality Z sym = 1-exp(-R sym Atkinson (1-Z nosniktA i=1..N ln(A i /E i E i /E total -A i /A total Hoover inequality Z Hoover i=1..N E i /E total -A i /A total Coulter inequality Z Coulter i=1..N E i /E total -A i /A total Gini inequality sort data: E i /A i i-1 /A i-1 Z Gini i=1..N k=1..i (E k )-E i A i )/(E total A total EU inequality 1:a = (1-Z Gini )/(1+Z Gini is the SOEP "equality parameter" therefore: Z Europe Z Gini /(1+Z Gini Plato inequality inverse functions: Z sym = 1-((1-Z Plato )/(1+Z Plato Z Plato R sym Z Plato artanh(Z Plato approximation: Z Plato sym (0.06*Z sym sym fast recursion: initialize: Z Plato sym (0.06/exp(R

37. Entropy It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is http://www.7stones.com/Homepage/Publisher/entropy.html

Back to Contents. The light blue square is 300x300 pixels - 90,000 pixels total. Each pixel can exist in one of two states, light blue, or dark blue (the dark blue square is just the dual of the light blue). Each time cycle a single pixel will switch states. Once the square has changed from its initial state (all pixels light blue - very low probability state), it is virtually impossible that it will ever spontaneously revert. Most states are in the roughly 50-50 region (ie., 50% light blue, and 50% dark). These high probability states have the highest entropy. It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a low probability state. This is somewhat analogous to adding heat (Q) to an ideal gas kept at a constant volume. Adding heat raises the temperature. At any given moment the increase in entropy, dS, due to added heat, dQ, is dS = dQ/T. So (dS/dt) = (dQ/dt)/T. If the rate that heat is added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is highest when T is smallest. At constant volume, dQ/T is proportional to dQ/Q, the fractional increase

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Entropy Manor The web site of a conservative geek living in Indianapolis, Indiana Time To Hang Up The Keyboard October 30th, 2007 Posted in General For Alli September 6th, 2007 Alli posed the following question in the comments of my previous post: So um. are you ever going to blog again? At least I had the decency to hang up my keyboard properly! And I want details on the big day!! As to details about the wedding, that will have to wait a little while. I have work to do. But I will get to your request ASAP Alli. Posted in General A Brief Post June 30th, 2007 I would like to take this opportunity to wish Hoosierboy a happy 23rd wedding anniversary. Methodist Church Posted in General Yes June 22nd, 2007 Nathan is back Posted in Blogging Comments Off Long Overdue Update June 8th, 2007 We now return you to your regularly scheduled chaos. Posted in General Comments Off Calling All Conservative Hoosier Bloggers May 27th, 2007 Since Nathan has decided to hang up his blog, I think that the time has come for us to look for some new conservative (or libertarian) bloggers to represent the fine state of Indiana in the Hoosier Blog Alliance. If you live or work in Indiana and would like to join us, please feel free to post a comment here that includes a link to your blog.

39. Maximum Entropy This page contains pedagogicallyoriented material on maximum entropy and exponential models. The emphasis is towards modelling of discrete-valued http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aberger/maxent.html

MaxEnt and Exponential Models This page contains pedagogically-oriented material on maximum entropy and exponential models. The emphasis is towards modelling of discrete-valued stochastic processes which arise in human language applications, such as language modelling. All links point to postscript files unless otherwise indicated. Tutorials An online introduction to maxent This is a high-level tutorial on how to use MaxEnt for modelling discrete stochastic processes. The motivating example is the task of determining the most appropriate translation of a French word in context. The tutorial discusses the process of growing an exponential model by automatic feature selection ("inductive learning," if you will) and also the task of estimating maximum-likelihood parameters for a model containing a fixed set of features. Convexity, Maximum Likelihood and All That This note is meant as a gentle but comprehensive introduction to the expectation-maximization (EM) and improved iterative scaling (IIS) algorithms, two popular techniques in maximum likelihood estimation. The focus in this tutorial is on the foundation common to the two algorithms: convex functions and their convenient properties. Where examples are called for, we draw from applications in human language technology.

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