Entropy is a way of quantifying how likely the system’s current microstate is. A coin is a very good analogy. Its macrostate is its shape, size, color, temperature.

To judge from the writings of C.R Snow, entropy and the second law of thermodynamics were once indelicate subjects. Now things have changed, and on the cocktail party circuit we hear of entropy in art ...

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Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe" (2018). Sutter contributed this article to ...

In classical thermodynamics, entropy is a concept that describes a property of matter that changes with the amount present. Essentially, it measures disorder, or how disorganized a system is on a ...

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