• quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910 American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed...
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    Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse...
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    thermodynamic equilibrium where the entropy is highest at the given internal energy. An increase in the combined entropy of system and surroundings accounts for...
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    law of thermodynamics requires that black holes have entropy. If black holes carried no entropy, it would be possible to violate the second law by throwing...
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    define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium...
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  • Entropy: Zero 2 is a 2022 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Breadmen. It is a single-player modification for Half-Life 2 (2004)...
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  • Negentropy (redirect from Negative entropy)
    information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. The concept and phrase "negative entropy" was introduced by...
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  • February 1943. Doubleday (1956) and Internet Archive. Entropy and life Gibbs free energy James D. Watson Quantum Aspects of Life Philosophy of biology Margulis...
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    thermodynamics, a temperature–entropy (T–s) diagram is a thermodynamic diagram used to visualize changes to temperature (T ) and specific entropy (s) during a thermodynamic...
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  • an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy, rather...
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    Pressure (redirect from Fluids and pressure)
    The subscripts mean that the derivative is taken at fixed entropy ( S {\displaystyle S} ) and particle number ( N {\displaystyle N} ). The SI unit for...
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  • ) Lai-Sang Young, "Entropy in Dynamical Systems" (pdf; ps), appearing as Chapter 16 in Entropy, Andreas Greven, Gerhard Keller, and Gerald Warnecke, eds...
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    Effective accelerationism (category Ethics of science and technology)
    the origin of life, which is focused on entropy and thermodynamics. According to them, the universe aims to increase entropy, and life is a way of increasing...
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    Examples of extensive properties include: amount of substance, n enthalpy, H entropy, S Gibbs energy, G heat capacity, Cp Helmholtz energy, A or F internal...
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    state 1 using the equations listed. ^ a. In an isentropic process, system entropy (S) is constant. Under these conditions, p1V1γ = p2V2γ, where γ is defined...
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    intensive quantities (such as pressure, temperature, specific volume, specific entropy) of the system at any instant during the whole process; otherwise, since...
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    change in entropy of the universe is zero. In the irreversible, Q = 0, so the entropy of the surroundings does not change and the change in entropy of the...
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  • organization despite the second law of thermodynamics, as seen in entropy and life This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Schrödinger's...
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    isolation of the contents of the container establishes the closed system; and the inability of the container to deform imposes the constant-volume condition...
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    The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system at thermodynamic equilibrium approaches a constant value when its temperature...
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    there are changes of entropy in both the surroundings which lose heat and the system which gains it. The increase, ΔS, of entropy in the system may be...
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    reference to entropy, which is defined in the second law. The law was established by Ralph H. Fowler in the 1930s, long after the first, second, and third laws...
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    the system. The cycle is reversible, and entropy is conserved, merely transferred between the thermal reservoirs and the system without gain or loss. When...
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    Ideal gas (section Entropy)
    gas is based on classical statistical mechanics, and certain thermodynamic parameters such as the entropy are only specified to within an undetermined additive...
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    However, it can be done locally, and the macroscopic entropy will then be given by the integral of the locally defined entropy density. It has been found that...
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    Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Walther Nernst. It also led to a mathematical formulation of the concept of entropy by Clausius and to the introduction of...
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    compression stroke and a longer expansion stroke. The first Atkinson-cycle engine, the differential engine, used opposed pistons. The second and best-known design...
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    {1}{V}}\left({\frac {\partial V}{\partial p}}\right)_{S},} where S is entropy. For a solid, the distinction between the two is usually negligible. Since...
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    that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of...
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    closed homogeneous system is its energy function H(S, p), with its entropy S[p] and its pressure p as natural state variables which provide a differential...
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