Freeware from Jonax
MaxDe - Maxwell's Demon
^ Screenshot of MaxDe-GTK3 when ongoing
MaxDe - Maxwell's Demon
Inspiration from the famous Gedankenexperiment by 19th century physicist James C Maxwell
What to do:
First select difficulty level. Press Key 1-9.
Separate the balls by well-timed opening/closing of middle wall
Hit (almost) any other key to change wall status.
^ Screenshot of MaxDe start screen
Want to do a statistical mechanics physics experiment?
Find out a connection between the number of balls and the average time for spontaneous separation on your system.
How to do that? Start the system with keys 1-9. Wait until the system auto completes. Note the time for different start numbers.
Make an assumption of the connection time/number of balls and compare with your results.
Hints: the more balls the longer time necessary. For fastest test run: Press key 1 (and wait).
For higher numbers of balls a lot of time will be needed. Be patient.
A Libre Office Calc sheet may be helpful for organizing your results.
^ Screenshot of MaxDe-GTK3 when ongoing
Coded with Lazarus Pascal
Compiled on AMD64 Debian GNU/Linux 13
Place the file in some directory
If necessary make executable.
Run the program
Download size: 3 MB
System Requirements: AMD64 Linux, GTK3, 3 MB free disk space,
keyboard, monitor: VGA or better
SHA512:
c3c28855bca274ce14a8e997355805841c85b8a12c2c9c439655f35c9aabfd6522561a640497b3ecbb1b2687f134211240aeadf5d493b478baa35c136f6d2d3f
Download MaxDe-GTK3 here
To download. Click the red button
