ENTROPY

Definition An <ENTROPY> is a <Property> that is a measure of thermal energy per unit temperature of a thermodynamic system that is unavailable for doing useful work. Because work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system. It is calculated as H(X) = Sum[i=1, n]p(x_i)I(x_i) for the set X = |x_1, �, x_n| where p(x_i) is the probability and I(x_i) is the information content of event x_i