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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] After identifying the two driving forces behind all chemical reactions and physical processes, students investigate entropy, and predict whether the entropy change...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Physical Meaning of Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation to entropy. Other topics covered include entropy and disorder, absolute entropies, and more.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Entropy?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the process that explains why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of entropy that focuses on explaining entropy, how it applies to the second law of thermodynamics, and real-life observations of the existence of entropy.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site is from Georgia State University. The tendency of nature to move towards a more disordered state in an isolated system, a concept known as entropy, is discussed. This concept is well-depicted in meaningful diagrams.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Heat Transfer Problem With Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the change in entropy that occurs when heat moves through a barrier that is separating gases at two different temperatures.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Entropy and Negentropy: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concepts of entropy and negentropy and will understand that systems gradually move towards entropy unless additional energy is introduced to them. It is 2 of 3 in the series...
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Other

New Mexico State University: Change in Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
An example of a calculation of the change in entropy in a simple chemical reaction.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Effect of Temperature and Concentration on the Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. The specific topic addressed is effect of temperature, volume, and concentration on the entropy.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Standard Entropies of Substances

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. Other topics covered include standard entropy, gases, and more.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Absolute Entropies

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. The subject, absolute entropies, is discussed in addition to the third law of thermodynamics, phase...
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Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Thermodynamics and Heat: Entropy

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains entropy in a system and how it is measured.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identify Examples of Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to identify changes in entropy and provide examples of entropy change.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Colligative Properties of Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and colligative properties. Other topics covered include osmotic pressure, entropy, free energy, and more.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of printable pdf pages from the University of Sydney's "Thermal Physics Module" site. Entropy is defined and explained conceptually. The mathematical treatment of entropy is introduced. The second law of thermodynamics and its...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: First Law of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students analyze and explain everyday examples that illustrate the laws of thermodynamics, including the law of conservation of energy and the law of entropy.
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Other

Thermodynamics and Precipitation Reactions: Entropy and Precipitation

For Students 9th - 10th
A colorful presentation of precipitation reactions with many diagrams and explanations. Very high level.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cold Packs

For Students 9th - 10th
If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is it, then, that cold packs go from room temperature to near freezing in mere seconds? John Pollard details the chemistry of the cold pack, shedding...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Triggers a Chemical Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand chemical reactions by learning about enthalpy and entropy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Spontaneous Reactions and Free Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students discover the concept of a spontaneous reaction in terms of enthalpy and entropy changes, and then investigate and calculate free energy.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Thermochemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module students learn the relationship between energy and chemical reactions, and understand the difference between energy, heat, and work. They perform calorimetry calculations, and study the laws of thermodynamics, enthalpy,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Second Law of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will analyze and explain everyday examples that illustrate the laws of thermodynamics, including the law of conservation of energy and the law of entropy.
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Other

Applied Thermodynamics: Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
Entropy is defined and discussed at this site from Applied Thermodynamics. The equation for this mathematical quantity is given and explained. Some unit information concerning entropy is provided.
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Other

Cosmic Ancestry/the Second Law of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
The differences between thermodynamic entropy and logical entropy are explained, especially how they relate to the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy in biology is also discussed.

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