Entropy

Entropy, natures tenancy toward disorder. It is something I have come to understand more from dorm life than a thermodynamics textbook. One only needs to peer into the life of a college student to understand the second law of thermodynamics. The room that was clean on Monday by Friday is nothing more than a sea of textbooks, papers, and empty coffee cups. With horror, I observe that it has reached its lowest energy and a state of equilibrium. Entropy to some may seem like a mysterious topic but is really nothing more than the hopeless realization that energy must be put into the system to work against entropy, or to put it more precisely a dorm rooms not going to clean itself.


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Entropy the first law of thermodynamics

The idea of entropy first surfaced in the middle of last century. It emerged from observations that to most would appear quite obvious: Water doesn't fall up wards, broken beakers don't spontaneously reassemble, "rooms don't clean themselves" . Entropy grows with the passage of time. In fact most of our understanding of time is a direct result of observing entropy. Most actions are one way that direct this naturally flow of time.