Thermodynamics

More implications (hot and cold water example):

  • Systems generally move toward equilibrium.

  • This system also moves toward higher entropy (more disorder) as you would expect from Law 2.

  • You cannot convey as much information in the final state: as entropy goes up, information content goes down.

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