Entropy and Heat
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Question #1
In your own words, define entropy. Provide one everyday example resulting in an increase in entropy, and another resulting in a decrease.
Question #2
About 38% of the food energy we consume is converted to chemical energy in the form of ATP, what happens to the remainder of the energy?
Question #3
When warm objects are placed in the vicinity of cooler objects, both eventually come reach the same temperature. How can this fact be related to entropy and spontaneity?
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The expert determines what entropy is. How energy is lost in a reaction is determined. How thermal equilibrium is a function of entropy is determined.
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Question #1
In your own words, define entropy. Provide one everyday example resulting in an increase in entropy, and another resulting in a decrease.
Entropy is the increase of disorder in a system. An example on an increase in entropy would be the evaporation of water from a glass left out. An example of a decrease in entropy ...
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