Equation 4 · Part 3 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Stochastic Thermodynamics and Complex Systems
Symbol T
What this part means
the bath temperature.
Its job in the formula
T is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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Where the article explains it
Szilard showed that the demon’s ability to extract work was tied exactly to the amount of information it acquired in the measurement — one bit of information corresponds to a definite quantity of work, T 2 , where is Boltzmann’s constant and T is the bath temperature.
The passage around this formula
…work. Szilard showed that the demon’s ability to extract work was tied exactly to the amount of information it acquired in the measurement — one bit of information corresponds to a definite quantity of work, T 2 , where is Boltzmann’s constant and T is the bath temperature. This is worth stating as an equation because it is the single quantity that recurs across the rest of this history: . Szilard’s paper is a fact of the historical record: it is the first place a…
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