Comparing Maxwell's Demon To Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics

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A Scientific Study on Possible Conflicting Ideas of Maxwell’s Demon to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics dela Torre, Herbhelyne Mae B., Merciales, Sunshine Cassandra C., Olarve, Raymund Salveo L.

Introduction
Statistical mechanics is a subject or branch of Physics which is not a well – known course to everyone. It may be considered as higher Physics because it is only taken by pure physics students and those students taking up graduate studies. It can be considered as a continuation of thermodynamics. Why did it exist? Because, just like in Quantum Mechanics, there are lots of questions which have risen lately and cannot be answered fully by Classical Mechanics or more specifically in Thermodynamics. Since we now have lots of developments and progress in Statistical Mechanics, conflicts in some thermodynamic ideas emerged. These conflicts caught our attention, although we will just be focusing on one topic and try to give the details of how we understand this relating all what we have learned in thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. We are going to state these ideas in a qualitative way since it would be difficult for us to express our thoughts in a quantitative manner. …show more content…

This paper includes the discussion of answers to specific questions like “Why is this phenomenon given such name?”, “What makes it important to consider in the development of modern applications in Statistical Mechanics?” and “What principle in the Second Law of Thermodynamics is violated?”. This also aims to discuss the possible reason as to how this phenomenon violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, if it really does, or

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