Entropy (order and disorder)
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In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, or chaos in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion that any thermodynamic process always "admits to being reduced [reduction] to the alteration in some way or another of the arrangement of the constituent parts of the working body" and that internal work associated with these alterations is quantified energetically by a measure of "entropy" change.
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See also
- Entropy
- Entropy production
- Entropy rate
- History of entropy
- Entropy of mixing
- Entropy (information theory)
- Entropy (computing)
- Entropy (energy dispersal)
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Entropy (statistical thermodynamics)
- Entropy (classical thermodynamics)
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