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In the view of Jaynes (1957), thermodynamic entropy, as explained by statistical mechanics, should be seen as an application of Shannon's information theory: the thermodynamic entropy is interpreted as being proportional to the amount of further Shannon information needed to define the detailed microscopic state of the system, that remains uncommunicated by a description solely in terms of the macroscopic variables of classical thermodynamics, with the constant of proportionality being just ...
Since entropy is a state function, the entropy change of any process in which temperature and volume both vary is the same as for a path divided into two steps-heating at constant volume and expansion at constant temperature.n which CD is the disorder capacity of the system, which is the entropy of the parts contained in the permitted ensemble, CI is the information capacity of the system, an expression similar to Shannon's channel capacity, and CO is the order capacity of the system.