• 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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    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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    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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    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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    define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • ) 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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    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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  • 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)
    syntropy. The concept and phrase "negative entropy" was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1944 book What is Life?. Later, French physicist Léon Brillouin...
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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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    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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    a way that the net change in the combined entropy of the system and its surroundings is zero. (The entropy of the system alone is conserved only in reversible...
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    temperature, V denotes volume, and the ellipsis denotes other possible state variables like particle number N and entropy S. If the state space is two-dimensional...
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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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  • Entropy, the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, and in Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe. Third, the application of entropy and...
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  • In thermodynamics, the interpretation of entropy as a measure of energy dispersal has been exercised against the background of the traditional view, introduced...
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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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    constant, to the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, and to the Boltzmann statistical mechanical definition of entropy, as distinct from the Gibbs definition, for...
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    flow in a system and the entropy of the system and its surroundings. Clausius developed this in his efforts to explain entropy and define it quantitatively...
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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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    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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    {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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    H {\textstyle H} is the enthalpy of the system S {\textstyle S} is the entropy of the system T {\textstyle T} is the temperature of the system V {\textstyle...
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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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    universe will evolve to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and, having reached maximum entropy, will therefore be unable to sustain any further thermodynamic...
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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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