By John S. Nicolis
The major goal of those lectures is to tri gger the curiosity of the stressed below graduate pupil of actual, mathematical, engineering, or organic sciences within the new and intriguing multidisciplinary zone of the evolution of "large-scale" dynamical platforms. this article grew out of a synthesis of particularly heterogeneous mate rial that I offered on a number of events and in numerous contexts. for instance, from lectures given in view that 1972 to first- and final-year undergraduate and primary yr graduate scholars on the college of Engineering of the college of Patras and from casual seminars provided to a world workforce of graduate and publish doctoral scholars and school contributors on the collage of Stuttgart within the aca demic yr 1982-1983. those that look for rigor or perhaps formality during this ebook are certain to be particularly dissatisfied. My goal is to begin from "scratch" if attainable, retaining the rea soning heuristic and tied as heavily as attainable to actual instinct; i guess as must haves simply uncomplicated wisdom of (classical) physics (at the extent of the Berkeley sequence or the Feynman lectures), calculus, and a few components of probabil ity thought. this doesn't suggest that I meant to jot down a simple publication, yet relatively to dispose of any trouble for an keen reader who, inspite of incomplete for malistic education, wish to turn into familiar with the actual rules and con cepts underlying the evolution and dynamics of advanced systems.
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What is information? In the absence of any "rigorous" definition, let us for the moment settle for the meaning attached to this word by the layman, and try to find out criteria which discriminate statements bringing forth a lot of information from statements poor in information. Compare, for instance, the two statements or messages: M1 = Professor X entered the classroom. M2 = Professor X, upon entering the classroom, shot a student. Everybody agrees that M1 is trivial and its taking place moves nobody (except perhaps the waiting students), while M2 causes an international stir (it is broadcast, televised, discussed in the press, and so on); therefore M2 brings a lot of information -especially if Professor X is well known.
Let a be an undetermined Langrangian multiplier. We consider the maximization of 47 Il F (P. 13) hence lo92Pi =a -1 for all i. Therefore all Pi are equal. From the normalization condition, we get P. =1/1l. , simply the logarithm of the number of states. Let us pass next to the physicaZ entropy of a system. Suppose we have a system (a physical body, say) composed of N interacting components which belong to Il discrete different categories according to a given classification criterion (say a discrete velocity distribution).
Acted upon, by an external observer, depending on the "filter" he is using, at three basic, distinct hierarchical levels: (1) the level of elementary particle interaction (a base level common to all physical systems), (2) the atomic level, and (3) the molecular level. Now we know that the type of interaction characterizing level 1 is the strong nuclear interaction F1 , characterizing level 2 are the electromagnetic interactions F2 , and characterizing level 3 are the London-van der Waals interactions.