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An important extensive property of all systems in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory, quantifying their disorder (randomness), i.e., our lack of information about them. It characterizes the degree to which the energy of the system is *not* available to do useful work.
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Why does a temperature increase on a fixed volume increase entropy?
The number of possible microstates is still the same, so isn't the entropy constant? …
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Can ice have a higher entropy than water?
I've leant that entropy is a state of randomness, and that solids have a more structured form, therefore having less entropy. … However, I saw a YouTube comment stating the following:
a liquid NOT ALWAYS means higher entropy than a solid
it depends...of the context
for example, in the south pole, ice means higher entropy …
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Does entropy really always increase (or stay the same)? [duplicate]
While unlikely, wouldn't this mean that entropy decreases? …
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