what is the practical use of ENTROPY?
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Answer / sandip
Entropy is a measure of irreversibility or disorderness of a
system. All actual thermodynamic processes are irreversible
and their amount of irreversibility is measured by change in
entropy.
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Answer / ak
Entropy is always associated with heat transfer between 2 bodies....it is ratio of heat transfer and temp....so if a body is rejecting heat its entropy is decreasing and if a body is gaining heat then its entropy is increasing...
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Answer / archana
Entropy defines weather a cycle is reversible or irreversible
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Answer / vny
actually entropy doesn't have any significance, we always defined change in entropy of a substance.. entropy generally defines the amount of internal energy gain or heated by the source on increasing temperature...
it is a state function i.e. its only depend on the intial and final postion of the body...
ex. heating or cooling of matter
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Answer / samurai
refrigerators which are based on negative entropy
air conditioners(ac)etc
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Answer / manoj kumar verma
sun rays are touch the particles & which value of heated
it's entropy.
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