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On 03/09/2012 02:27 PM, Bennett Sessa wrote:
If you have a very messy desk, the entropy of the system is x. If you
clean up the desk area, then it would seem that the entropy would
decrease,
I wouldn't have said that.
Messiness (aka disorder) should not be equated with entropy.
Disorder, to the extent that you can define it at all, is a property
of the microstate. Entropy is defined as a property of the macrostate.