people believe that the law says that as a law, entropy cannot decrease, but clearly this isn’t true. The entropy of a system, such as the parking lot, can decrease by doing work on the system as it is being done here. In this process, the entropy of the surroundings must increase more than the entropy of the system is decreased to make up for the decrease of entropy of the system
Tag: entropy
Born to Cause Trouble 8/23/19
yes, you were born to cause trouble
Entropy and Meals 1/16/19
it's fascinating, at least to me, to think that, indeed, the process of eating and digestion does help to satisfy the second law of thermodynamics, which is good because I would not want to end up in quantum court!
Thermodynamics and YOU 12/10/18
Everything that occurs, must occur according to the laws of thermodynamics. Everything. Not just in class, and not just in science, but everything. And the reality is that you know these laws.
