(December 9, 2014 at 9:23 pm)dyresand Wrote:(December 9, 2014 at 8:58 pm)ChristIsLord Wrote: So is entropy the transfer of heat from my body to the object I touch?
Or is it a measure of heat that remains within my body after I touch the object?
all your doing is passing heat from yourself to a object.
Definition of ENTROPY
1
: a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
2
a : the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
b : a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder
3
: chaos, disorganization, randomness
i hope this clears things up for you.
It does clear up the definition of entropy, but now how does COLD = Entropy?
So in keeping with the concept of thermal energy, it sounds like Entropy is that point where a system reaches a thermal equilibrium at which it ceases to release or give up anymore of its thermal energy (heat), right?