entropy

     

In thermoynamics (a branch of physics), entropy is a measure of the unavailability of a system’s energy to do work.

Trivia about entropy

  • In the 19th C. Rudolf Clausius coined this word for measuring increasing disorder in a system
  • In thermodynamics, a closed system slowly evolves towards a state of maximum this, inactivity
  • Called "time's arrow", it's a measure of disorder in a system
  • A measure of energy that can't be converted into work, it's causing the universe to run down into bleak nothingness

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