Information entropy and thermal entropy: apples and oranges
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Information entropy and thermal entropy: apples and oranges
The frequent misunderstanding of information entropy is pointed out. It is shown that, contrary to fortuitous situations and common beliefs, there is no general interrelation between the information entropy and the thermodynamical entropy. We point out that the change of information entropy during measurement is determined by the resolution of the measurement instrument and these changes do not...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational Electronics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1569-8025,1572-8137
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-017-1044-1