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Entropy
editwhat is the common meaning of entropy in daily life? 27.111.211.10 (talk) 17:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- See our article Introduction to entropy. Dolphin (t) 21:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
economics
editThe final section on applications to economics feels like an advertising piece. 2600:4041:2D9:CC00:F8DC:AB0:B403:4880 (talk) 19:44, 25 July 2025 (UTC)
- It does, but I do not know enough about the subject to edit it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 06:31, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Changed introduction
editwhile the new introduction is an improvement, it is still not right.
There is (classical) thermodynamic entropy, which makes no use of microstates or probabilities. These are concepts of statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics is a very successful theory which was developed to provide an explanation of classical thermodynamics. Ultimately, that explanation includes the relationship between thermodynamic entropy and information entropy.
I wonder if there is an easily accessible way to write the introduction without confusing thermodynamic entropy (a state variable) and information entropy (a statistical mechanical variable, involving probabilities, etc.) PAR (talk) 22:16, 29 April 2026 (UTC)