Freeware from Jonax

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MaxDe - Maxwell's Demon

^ Screenshot of MaxDe when ongoing

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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 1-5.

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 physics experiment?

Find out a connection between the number of balls and the average time for spontaneous separation on your system.
Hint: You may not have time to examine the 16- and 32-balls cases.

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Coded with Lazarus Pascal
Compiled on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux (11.7 Bullseye)

Place the file in some directory
If necessary make executable.
Run the program

Download size: 3 MB

System Requirements: 64-bit Linux, GTK2, 3 MB free disk space, keyboard, monitor: VGA or better

GTK2 is not installed by default on newer distributions. E.g. Debian 13. Can be installed with

sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0

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SHA512:

58bf1c11f0f182816ce20ef355281772bc196b1b1b77b1e753ca35b9e5abade4cb7f5c38476b7dcece4b064eb5a9e355d7406b2d7598946353ef0fcfc9d2d649

Download MaxDe here

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