"One of the ideas involved in the concept of entropy is that nature tends from order to disorder in isolated systems."
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba...ntrop.html
"In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, and/or chaos in a thermodynamic system."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(or..._disorder)
Entropy is sometimes referred to as a measure of the amount of "disorder" in a system. Lots of disorder = high entropy, while order = low entropy
http://webs.morningside.edu/slaven/physi...ropy7.html
The word disorder is used is because it is the most effective way of communicating the idea of what a "higher entropy" means.
To use both the terms Dispersal and Disorder are correct in describing the phenomenon, dispersal as the distance between quanta of energy, and disorder as the trend from unification to dispersement. Seeing as order is synonymous with unification and the antithesis of order is disorder where as the dispersement describes the effect of a more unified state (in volume) becoming a state where there is a greater volume between quanta, it is correct to use either as synonyms.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba...ntrop.html
"In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, and/or chaos in a thermodynamic system."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(or..._disorder)
Entropy is sometimes referred to as a measure of the amount of "disorder" in a system. Lots of disorder = high entropy, while order = low entropy
http://webs.morningside.edu/slaven/physi...ropy7.html
The word disorder is used is because it is the most effective way of communicating the idea of what a "higher entropy" means.
To use both the terms Dispersal and Disorder are correct in describing the phenomenon, dispersal as the distance between quanta of energy, and disorder as the trend from unification to dispersement. Seeing as order is synonymous with unification and the antithesis of order is disorder where as the dispersement describes the effect of a more unified state (in volume) becoming a state where there is a greater volume between quanta, it is correct to use either as synonyms.
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