Entropy and the second law: interpretation and misss-interpretationsss

Contents note continued: 2.4.2. Some Elementary Properties of the Function H

2.4.3. The Case of an Infinite Number of Outcomes

2.5. The Various Interpretations of the Quantity H

2.6. Conditional and Mutual Information

2.7. Summary of What We Have Learnt in this Chapter

ch. 3 The Astounding Emergence of the Entropy of a Classical Ideal Gas out of Shannon's Measure of Information

3.1. The Locational SMI of an Ideal Gas

3.2. Mutual Information due to Indistinguishability of Particles

3.3. The Momentum SMI

3.4. Mutual Information Associated with the Uncertainty Principle

3.5. Entropy of a Classical Ideal Gas

3.6. Fundamental Properties of the Entropy Function S(E, V, N)

3.7. Concluding Remarks

ch. 4 Examples and Their Interpretations. Challenges for any Descriptor of Entropy

4.1. Expansion of an Ideal Gas

4.2. Processes Involving Mixing of Two Ideal Gases

4.2.1. Pure Mixing of Two Ideal Gases

4.2.2. Mixing and Expansion of Two Ideal Gases.

Contents note continued: 4.2.3. Demixing and Expansion of Two Ideal Gases

4.3. Processes Involving Assimilation of Ideal Gases

4.3.1. Pure Assimilation Process

4.3.2. Assimilation and Expansion Processes

4.3.3.A Spontaneous Process Involving Pure Deassimilation

4.3.4. Delocalization Process and Communal Entropy

4.4. Expansion of an Ideal Gas in a Gravitational Field

4.5. Processes Involving Changes in the Velocity Distribution

4.6. The Effect of Intermolecular Interactions

4.7. Three Challenging Processes

4.8. Conclusion

ch. 5 Finally, Let Us Discuss the Most Mysterious Second Law of Thermodynamics

5.1. What Drives a Spontaneous Process?

5.2. What Drives the Entropy Upwards

5.3. Heat Flow between the Two Compartments

5.4. How Did the System Evolve?

5.5. The Association of the Second Law with the Arrow of Time

5.6. Does Life "Emerge" from the Second Law or Does It Defy It?

5.7. Conclusion.