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    Entropy is a measure of the number of arrangements that atoms and energy packets can form. As energy from a toy car's battery is used to move it, the battery's energy naturally decreases because there are far more arrangements for the molecules to be in a dispersed state than a concentrated state, making it statistically unlikely for the energy to flow back into the battery on its own. The number of arrangements follows a bell curve where the initial and final states have very low probabilities of occurring.

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    Entropy is a measure of the number of arrangements that atoms and energy packets can form. As energy from a toy car's battery is used to move it, the battery's energy naturally decreases because there are far more arrangements for the molecules to be in a dispersed state than a concentrated state, making it statistically unlikely for the energy to flow back into the battery on its own. The number of arrangements follows a bell curve where the initial and final states have very low probabilities of occurring.

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    Entropy Explained

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    Entropy is a measure of the number of arrangements that atoms and energy packets can form. As energy from a toy car's battery is used to move it, the battery's energy naturally decreases because there are far more arrangements for the molecules to be in a dispersed state than a concentrated state, making it statistically unlikely for the energy to flow back into the battery on its own. The number of arrangements follows a bell curve where the initial and final states have very low probabilities of occurring.

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    Entropy explained

    Entropy is about the number of different ways atoms and energy packets can be
    arranged. Say you have a toy car, one that works on a battery. As you use the
    energy in the battery of the car to move it around. The energy in the battery naturally
    decreases, but why? Because the principle of entropy tells us that there is a state
    wherein the molecules could do the reverse. So why don’t they? When the statistics
    are put into a graph we can see that when the atom count rises the graph takes the
    shape of a mountain-graph. Making the options at the start and at the end of the
    graph very unlikely situations for the atoms to be arranged in. Adding more energy
    packets wouldn’t help to even out the graph. So the chances of the battery of the toy
    car containing the energy while moving are so little that it can well be said that it is
    impossible to occur.

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