Maxwell's demon (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Maxwell's demon : entropy, information, computing, 1990.

McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (Demon of Maxwell--Hypothetical creature who controls a trap door over a microscopic hole in an adibatic wall between two vessels filled with gas at the same temperature, to decrease the entropy of the gas as a whole, thus violate the second law of thermodynamics; also Maxwell's demon)

Conc. dict. physics.

New dict. physics.

Random House (Maxwell demon)

Web. 3 (Maxwell's demon)

Chambers sci. tech. dict. (Maxwell's demon)

Ballantyne dict. named effects and laws (Maxwell's demons)

Britannica Micro. (Maxwell's demon)

NASA; INIS:Thes.; INSPEC; Encyc. physics