Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
It's no wonder that some HS teacher continue to promulgate such
blatantly dangerous notions as entropy being related to disorder.
SOMEBODY working for the AIP has similar misconceptions!
e.g.
...
From the perspective of thermodynamics, controlling an object means reducing its
disorder, or entropy. Lowering the disorder of a hot gas, for example, decreases the
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
number of possible microscopic arrangements in the gas. This in turn
removes some of the uncertainty from the gas's detailed properties.
...