Talk:Entropy

Former good articleEntropy was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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June 22, 2006Good article nomineeListed
February 20, 2008Good article reassessmentDelisted
November 29, 2019Good article nomineeNot listed
Current status: Delisted good article


Entropy

what is the common meaning of entropy in daily life? 27.111.211.10 (talk) 17:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See our article Introduction to entropy. Dolphin (t) 21:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

economics

The 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)[reply]

It does, but I do not know enough about the subject to edit it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 06:31, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Changed introduction

while 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)[reply]

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