Maxwell's Demon and the Entropy of Information

Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.
Kenyon College

• Introduction
• The Second Law
• Maxwell's Demon
• Some Proposed Demons
• The Tube Demon
• Maxwell's Demon and Gibbs's Paradox
• The Computing Tunnel Demon
  • The Hard Disk Gas
  • Testing the Hard Disk Gas Model
  • Adding the Demon
  • The Stochastic Gas Model
• Conclusions
• Derivation of Collision Time Equations
• Derivation of Collision Equations
• Derivation of the Entropy
• References
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