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Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, and Disorderly Dorm Rooms - Examples of Entropy Increase? Nonsense!

Frank L. Lambert

La Verne, CA 91750

J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (10), p 1385

DOI: 10.1021/ed076p1385

Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1999

Abstract

Simply changing the location of everyday macro objects from an arrangement that we commonly judge as orderly to one that appears disorderly is a "zero change" in the thermodynamic entropy of the objects because the number of accessible energetic microstates in any of them has not been changed.

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