Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works

Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works

Entopy - The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1x26)


: 30, 2011

Turn to an idea that has been compared to a work of Shakespeare: the second law of thermodynamics. According to the second law, entropy, a measure of disorder, always increases in a closed system. Order can only increase at the cost of even greater entropy elsewhere in the system.

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