Statistical Thermodynamical Explanation of The Entropy of Mixing of Ideal Gases
Since thermodynamic entropy can be related to statistical mechanics or to information theory, it is possible to calculate the entropy of mixing using these two approaches. Here we consider the simple case of mixing ideal gases.
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