Tuesday 23 November 2010

Entropy

Not to be confused with Enthalpy.


Entropy is the degree of disorder.
Systems will move to a state of maximum disorder unless forced otherwise. (E.g. Tidying a room: If a room is not tidied periodically, it will eventually reach a state of optimum chaos)


exampli gratia, 
Diamond has a very ordered structure, so it's least disordered, so it has a low Entropy.


Gases don't have ordered structures, so they're most disordered, so they have a great Entropy.

Solids have the lower entropy.

Liquids have a medium entropy.

Gases have the greatest entropy.

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