entropy
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- noun
- /ˈɛntrəpi/
- Specialized
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entropía
- As a system becomes more disordered, its entropy increases, indicating greater energy unavailability.
- entropy generation
- thermodynamic entropy
- low-entropy
What is the journey from low entropy to high entropy like?
- What is the journey from low entropy to high entropy like?
- Let's assume that the entropy always increases or stays the same.
- So you go look in your teenage, teenagers room, bedroom, you got high entropy, clothes everywhere, chaos.
- Both low and high entropy are low in complexity.
- So this defines our nice entropy scaling framework.
Examples
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When the mass-energy of these bodies radiates away, large quantities of entropy are generated, and gravity loses further ground.
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For example, cell biologists need to understand entropy because free energy measures how much useful work can be done.
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What is the journey from low entropy to high entropy like?
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In this case, for this guy, the change in entropy is the following.
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What advice would you give to young people that are fighting entropy with all their might?
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And that would be a high entropy state compared to the smooth state.
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Entropy provides a measure of disorder within a physical system; whenever entropy is generated, the amount of disorder increases.
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The evenly matched competition between gravity and entropy allows the sun to exist in its present state.
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On every scale, the indefatigable competition between gravity and entropy ensures that victory is often temporary and never absolute.
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Why is the entropy of the universe so high, about 109 photons for every baryon?
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Antonyms
Compounds
How Disordered
Surface Forms
Etymology
Entropy comes from Greek parts en- 'in' and tropē 'turning'. Scientists used this idea of energy 'turning' into useless heat, so in thermodynamics entropy measures how much usable energy is lost and how much disorder there is.