Thermodynamics and Entropy
It has been said that the laws of thermodynamics, the second of which is entropy, are the laws upon which all other laws of the universe rely. The laws of thermodynamics explain the relationship between heat and energy. The first law of thermodynamics says that the amount of energy in a system remains the same even if the type of energy … Keep Reading → changes. The second law of thermodynamics states that heat can’t go to a higher temperature on its own. This law of entropy states that heat will naturally flow down to colder temperatures. Entropy was named by Rudolph Claussius in 1865 when he created the first mathematical representation of the process. Entropy has come to refer to a process that circumstances are predisposed to produce. The process of entropy is measured in relative terms of the change from the initial state to the new state.
