Law of

thermodynamics
Entropy
In thermodynamics, a system left to itself
tends to go from a state with a very ordered
set of energies (one that has only a small
probability of being randomly formed) to one
in which there is less order (or that has a high
probability of being randomly formed). The
measure of a system's disorder is called the
entropy of the system. The greater the
entropy of a system is, the greater the system's
disorder.
Entropy is a tendency for systems to move towards
disorder.
The second law of thermodynamics qualitatively explains
nature's tendency to move towards lower energy.
All things in nature tend towards higher entropy, which
suggests that the entropy of the universe must also be
continuously increasing.

Entropy
Every fall when the leaves change colour and spill from the trees,
they do so randomly. Leaves don't fall into neat piles or stack nicely
into towers, they just fall.

Similarly, when you drop a deck of cards onto the floor they don't
arrange themselves by suit or by number.

You can't throw a broken egg at the wall and cause it to come back
together into its original form.
The reason a deck of cards doesn't reorganize itself when you drop it is because it's
naturally easier for it to remain unordered. Think about the energy that it takes to
arrange cards by value and suit: you've got to look at a card, compare it to others,
classify it and then arrange it. You've got to repeat this process over and over until
all 52 of the cards have been compared and arranged, and that demands a lot of
energy.

Ice is a very ordered solid object, which means that as a whole it has very low
entropy. By absorbing the heat from the hot water, the molecules inside the ice
cube break loose and are able to move more freely as a liquid - their randomness
increases, and so does their entropy.
When you clean your house are you violating the second law
because you are making it more order.
When you clean your house are you violating the second law
because you are making it more order.

It does not violate the laws of thermodynamics because you

have to work to decrease the entropy of your room. While you
are doing this, your muscles are converting chemical potential
energy into kinetic energy. You are a part of the "system,“ and
the entropy of the whole system, including all of the chemical
reactions going on in your body, will go up as a result of your
activity. Your input in cleaning the room changes it from a closed
system to one with an external energy input Your room is not a
closed system ("isolated thermodynamic system"). There is no
such violation. It would only violate the second law if your room
was to spontaneously clean itself.
If you rub your hands together, does the entropy of the universe
increase, decrease, or stay the same?
Answer: The total entropy increases. Ordered motion
of the hands is being transferred to disordered
molecular motion (heat).
The universe is the ultimate closed system. The vast majority of thermodynamic processes
in the universe are irreversible, and thus the entropy of the universe as a whole is
continuously increasing and asymptotically approaching its maximum. Thus, if the
universe exists long enough, all energy will be evenly distributed throughout its volume.
In addition, if the universe keeps expanding forever, then gravity—the only long-range
force of importance— will not be able to pull objects together any more. This latter
condition is the main difference from the early universe in the first moments after the Big
Bang, when matter and energy were also distributed very evenly throughout the universe,
as revealed by the analysis of the cosmic microwave background radiation. But in the
early universe, gravity was very strong, as a result of the concentration of matter in a very
small space, and was able to develop minute fluctuations and contract matter into stars and
galaxies. Thus, even though matter and energy were evenly distributed in the very early
universe, the entropy was not near its maximum, and the entire universe was very far from
thermal equilibrium. In the long-term future of the universe, all stars, which currently
represent sources of energy for other objects such as our planet, will eventually be extinct.
Then, life will become impossible, because life needs an energy source to be able to lower
entropy locally.
As the universe asymptotically approaches its state of maximum entropy, every
subsystem of the universe will reach thermodynamic equilibrium. Sometimes this
long-term fate of the universe is referred to as heat death. However, the
temperature of the universe at that time will not be high, as this name may suggest,
but very close to absolute zero and very nearly the same everywhere.
This is not something we have to worry about soon, because some estimates place
the entropy death of the universe at about 10100 years into the future (with an
uncertainty of many orders of magnitude). Obviously, the long-term future of the
universe is very interesting and is currently an area of intense research. New
discoveries about dark matter and dark energy may change our picture of the long-
term future of the universe. But as it stands now, the universe will not go out with a
bang, but with a whimper.
Heat death !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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