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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Information and Entropy; Energy and Exergy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Explore the fundamental physics behind the origins of the climate crisis, including entropy, information theory, and exergy.

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  • Basic probability applied to large numbers
  • Introduction to thermodynamics and entropy
  • Introduction to statistical mechanics
  • Entropy of Mixing
  • Exergy

Taught by

Krishna Rajagopal, Peter Dourmaskin, Michelle Tomasik, Alex Shvonski, and Aidan MacDonagh

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