Simon DeDeo’s hand drawn notes for entropy class

Liz Voeller -

From the Notes Vault

Source: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/lecture1_dedeo_csss_2010.pdf

Entropy is a measure of a system’s:

  • Disorder
  • Information
  • Information carrying capacity
  • Uncertainty
  • Diversity

Entropy is also PHYSICAL. You can look up entropies of different substances.

“Water is just ice where the molecules are allowed to occupy the interstitial sites”