In thermodynamics, entropy is often associated with the amount of order or disorder in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion...

thermodynamic entropy concept often displayed by a second-order phase transition. Generally speaking, high thermal energy is associated with disorder and low thermal...

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...

information science Entropy (order and disorder), the relationship of disorder with heat and work Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory, the...

of entropy at equilibrium. The randomness or disorder is maximal, and so is the lack of distinction (or information) of each microstate. Entropy is a...

Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse...

Black hole entropy Black hole information paradox Entropy (information theory) Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) Entropy (order and disorder) Orders of...

Ludwig Boltzmann, of entropy as a quantitative measure of disorder. The energy dispersal approach avoids the ambiguous term 'disorder'. An early advocate...

configurational entropy, transition temperatures between order and disorder can be estimated, allowing one to understand when effects like age hardening and degradation...

"unburned". The word 'entropy' has entered popular usage to refer to a lack of order or predictability, or of a gradual decline into disorder. A more physical...

surroundings, or more complexity (higher order) relative to the raw materials they were made from. Thus, system entropy or disorder decreases while the tendency towards...

Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity...

However, the entropy can only be a constant if the system is in the highest possible state of disorder, such as a gas that always was, and always will...

In such a case, the entropy at absolute zero will be exactly zero. If the system does not have a well-defined order (if its order is glassy, for example)...

the definition of thermodynamic entropy as "disorder" in US general chemistry texts to its replacement by viewing entropy as a measure of energy dispersal...

instead. The idea that the second law of thermodynamics or "entropy law" is a law of disorder (or that dynamically ordered states are "infinitely improbable")...

In the history of physics, the concept of entropy developed in response to the observation that a certain amount of functional energy released from combustion...

physics of disordered systems, the random energy model is a toy model of a system with quenched disorder, such as a spin glass, having a first-order phase...

High-entropy oxides (HEOs) are complex oxides that contain five or more principal metal cations and have a single-phase crystal structure. The first HEO...

and its relation to order and information. In The Demon Possessed Campbell examines the concept of entropy and presents entropy as missing information...

possesses a finite entropy (estimated as 0.81 cal/(K·mol) or 3.4 J/(mol·K)) at zero temperature due to the configurational disorder intrinsic to the protons...

misconception and tries to clarify it. The main principle involved with "order-from-disorder" is the second law of thermodynamics, according to which entropy only...

attempted to use kinetic theory to show that the entropy of a gas prepared in a state of less than complete disorder must inevitably increase, as the gas molecules...

rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is the degradation, deterioration, or loss of the use or performance of...

there appears to be an intricate link between the entropic force and function. For example, disordered polypeptide segments – in the context of the folded...

Energy dissipation and entropy production extremal principles are ideas developed within non-equilibrium thermodynamics that attempt to predict the likely...

generally by entropy Order, optics, the category number of lighthouse Fresnel lenses, defining size and focal length Topological order in quantum mechanics...

that in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase with time. Entropy can be thought of as a measure of microscopic disorder; thus the second law implies...

The disordered nature of Ice IV was confirmed by neutron powder diffraction studies by Lobban (1998) and Klotz et al. (2003). In addition, the entropy difference...

taken to be a measure of "disorder". The higher the entropy, the higher the disorder. After his fall and subsequent shattering, the inability to put him together...