Poor, Veronika - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 3 (2005) 2, pp. 72-76
The Clausian introduction of entropy is based on an unnecessary restriction, namely that diminishing circle integral … leads to a unique state variable. Eliminating that restriction a family of entropy-like function is introduced. After we … have chosen one, called extropy, which has better properties as the well known entropy. …