Podcast
Questions and Answers
What is information defined as?
What is information defined as?
- The raw data before processing and organizing
- Processed, organized data that provides useful knowledge (correct)
- The measure of disorder in a system
- The uncertainty in a system
How can information be measured?
How can information be measured?
- In units such as meters, kilograms, seconds
- In units such as kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes
- In units such as volts, amps, watts
- In units such as bits, nats, or hartleys (correct)
What does entropy measure?
What does entropy measure?
- A system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work (correct)
- The amount of information available in a system
- The organization and structure of a system
- The total energy available in a system
What does high entropy indicate about a system?
What does high entropy indicate about a system?
What does a bit measure?
What does a bit measure?
Flashcards are hidden until you start studying