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\nThere's a concept that's crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's...\nThere's a concept that's crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.\n
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2017
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energy, entropy, solids, probability, measurement, time, chance
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science & technology, physical science, ice melts, hot object, energy moves, dispersed energy, high entropy, higher entropy, energy configuration, configuration, concentrated, ways, spread, bonds, system, disorder, understand, solid, thought, quanta, hotter, called, microstate, half, microstates
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