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Entropy 2010, 12, 420-433; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS entropy ISSN 109—300 /journal/entropy Article Representing Entropy with Dispersion Sets Bernhard Kolarczyk Humanistisches Gymnasium “Beda Weber”, Rennweg 3, 39012 Meran, Italy; E-Mail: Bernhard.Kolarczyk@schule.suedtirol.it Received: 21 January 2010; in revised form: 22 February 2010 / Accepted: 5 March 2010 / Published: 8 March 2010 Abstract: A novel representation of entropy is introduced, based on the heuristic concept of heat dispersion. To this end dispersion sets are defined, which describe both the heat transferred to a system and the associated entropy change. Some applications are discussed. Keywords: heat; entropy; equipartition; degree of freedom; dispersion element; dispersion set; dispersion cardinality; effective cardinality; second principle; heat engines; efficiency; radiation; low temperatures PACS Codes: 05.70.-a Thermodynamics; 65.40.gd Entropy 1. Introduction Given that there are presently three “traditional understandings of entropy [which] include the thermodynamic approach of Clausius, the statistical mechanics approaches of Boltzmann and Gibbs and the information theory approach of Shannon” [1], it is still difficult to grasp the concept of entropy in an intuitive and straightforward way. It will be shown that connecting Clausius’ understanding of entropy with information about mean values in the microscopic world coming out from the statistical approach, an uncomplicated representation of