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(a) (2 points) One very hot day in Cambridge Massachusetts a couple of MIT undergrads want to devise a way to cool off their dorm room (since they don't have air conditioning for the 3 hot days / year there). They decide to leave the door of their small room fridge open to cool off the room. Use your understanding of the thermodynamics of refrigerators to explain to them the lunacy of this idea. (b) Many connections have been made between entropy and classical information theory (which is actually the theory of information transfer). Shannon (1948) did some pioneering work in this regard by realizing that noisy information transfer (i.e. missing information) can be related to systems with higher entropy. He made the connection by realizing that for a system in contact with a heat bath at temperature 1' (Canonical Ensemble) the entropy can be written a:iln 2':1 where R is the probability that the system is in state 1'. Thus when many of the Rs are small but non-zero (e.g., at high temperature) we have little information about the state of the system and the entropy is large. Shannon derived the above formula to measure the lost information in a message (a series of \"bits") where R- was the probability that the \"bit\" is undisturbed. (i) (2 points) What is R- in the Canonical Ensemble. (ii) (3 points) Derive the Shannon's expression for entropy above by assuming a system with non-degenerate accessible states Ei : E1. E2. E3, . . . in contact with a heat bath at temperature 1'. [Hintz Our original denition of Helmholz Free Energy: F : U T0\" might prove helpful]. (c) (3 points) Random Party W'alk: Consider the movement of people in a crowded room of dancers as a random walk. Assume that the velocity of a partier is 1 m/s and that. the mean free path between collisions is 0.5 m. with the nal direction randomized. How long does it take. on average. for a person starting in the middle of the room to reach one of the walls in a large circular room of diameter 40 m compared to the time without collisions