Timeline for If entropy measures energy spread, what it is spread over?
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | GiorgioP-DoomsdayClockIsAt-90 | @coobit You have to separate two quite different things. The first one is the operational definition of entropy, and the classical approach for that is through the total sum of the $Q_{rev}/T$ contributions. Once one has defined this entropy as a thermodynamic state function, the analysis of its properties allows to extract a number of consequences. The spreading of energy being one of them. | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | coobit | Well, as you say "the total energy will be spread across parts of the system, which were previously separated". This I understand, but why Q/T? More so, you say it yourself "Q is not a property of the system" why then "spreading" has T in it's denominator and not... well.. Volume? | |
| Dec 24, 2018 at 17:19 | history | edited | GiorgioP-DoomsdayClockIsAt-90 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected a misplaced word
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| Dec 24, 2018 at 13:42 | history | answered | GiorgioP-DoomsdayClockIsAt-90 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |