What is entropy? – Jeff Phillips
What is entropy? – Jeff Phillips
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There’s a concept that’s crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It’s entropy, and it’s notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
Lesson by Jeff Phillips, animation by Provincia Studio.
Jeff Philips: "The chances that the icewater will make the coffe warmer are 0,0000000000003."
Me: "So you’re telling me there is a chance!"
Jeff Philips: "You did not understand one word in this entire video did you?"
Me: "Not a single word."
I see it as a way of the universe trying to balance itself.
The air compacted in a tire release to balance the air outside. A sort of homeostasis.
This is another way of saying to sleep now
The physics definition of entropy is just Shannon entropy H(X) . Us cryptography types use Renye entropy H_alpha(X) (as defined by Alfred Renye) which is an infinite class of entropy formulas, the most conservative of which is where alpha=infinity and is called min-entropy. This is analogous to the probability of being able to guess a number correctly from a uniformly distributed source and so directly relates to being able to guess a key. H_1(X) is the same as Shannon entropy but it’s not much use in cryptography.
If we put 2 glasses of water, one cold and other hot in a containment totlally 1000% in a vaccum, what will happen?🤔
Kyubey
Is this how the big bang happened? time is endless so even a miniscule chance has to happen at some point so even though all the energy in the universe happening to come together at the same time is 0.1^21345367658346534645 it is still possible and has to happen eventually even if it takes 3120948258734986793486745 trillion years, and at some point suddenly the universe got extremely hot instead of cooling down, this is me just making stuff up but thoughts?
Ok, I’m with you, but what is entropy?
This is such a weird explanation of entropy
I have seen worse!
A difficulty I had at first with this presentation is his little packets of energy ‘moving about’.
Few people see energy as ‘ little packets’ that ‘move about’.
It’s possible to look at Jeff’s model as ‘very small’ – actually ‘one or zero’ binary packets.
You are all, I take it, familiar with the ‘two valued, 0 & 1 numbering in computer arithmetic.
Well, that is the way Jeff’s describing his ‘System with ‘Entropy here’.
It is easiest to consider entropy in arrangements of multiple particles because it is not easy to imagine different ways of arranging just ONE particle(!)
NB#1 It might help to consider the dimension of entropy is exactly the same as temperature i.e. ‘Energy per Particle’. The difference arises with larger numbers of particles.
NB#2! To keep it simple we consider the energy (i.e. the temperature of a particle) as ‘its kinetic energy’ = half the mass x the velocity squared (KE = 1/2mV^2) of every ‘individual’ particle. You should already know that heat energy is the energy/of vibrating atoms, molecules or any particle that moves independently.
The next concept is ‘Thermal Equilibrium’ meaning all the particles in a group (or ‘system’) – System merely means all the parts influence each other some how. Like I said before, a single particle, by itself, has a temperature together with other particles they may collide ans therefore exchange energy – now we have a ‘ system’ (of particles, atoms, molecules etc.) If, by chance, they all have the same ‘kinetic energy’ they have the same ‘temperature’.
Maxwell & Boltzmann worked out what happened if these particles were colliding all the time, their total energy remaining the same. So the time averaged energy of the particles remained the same, meaning the temperature stayed constant too.
Between them, Maxwell & Boltzmann worked out what would be the energy distribution of the particles would be if they were colliding randomly i.e. free from external influence because clearly if the particles were constantly colliding, they would be constantly changing their energy at a phenomenal rate.
Entropy, similar to temperature describes a system of particles where the long term average is NOT the same. Simply put, some have a higher (or lower) temperature. The SYSTEM is not in equilibrium – it no longer has a uniform temperature, the various places (particles!) are at different temperatures!.
A simple example is a glass of water where there is a warm layer gloating on a cold layer. Impossible to give it a (single) ‘temperature”. You may stir the water so that it mixes well, then it will have a single temperature. However, unless you knew exactly how much warm and how much cold water (difficult!), you will have no idea what the resulting temperature from your mixing will be!
Think about it.
Funny stuff, heat.
So basically no on can die…ressurect…and elevate into the sky post-death? 🤔 #Bummer
If you had a tool to help you learn and be successful/pass thermo, what would you need in the tool? What issues/challenges did you experience taking thermo? What do you do when you are "stuck" and how do you get unstuck? If you have disabilities, what are accessibility needs to utilize an online tool? Why is thermo a difficult coarse?
When it’s irregular: *BOSS MUSIC INTENSIFIES*
fair enough
Thank you
Time travel?
The universe cannot be infinitely old or all useable energy would have been lost already (entropy). This has not occurred. Therefore, the universe is not infinitely old. Therefore, the universe had a beginning. Something cannot bring itself into existence. Therefore, something brought it into existence.
Is this why some people spontaneously combust?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2FSUCiVfQ
Only me who followed everything in the video while on 5hrs of sleep and just sees all the comfused ppl in the comments? xD
Glory be to Allah 🙏🤲🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Creator of everything
I have to say this. This was very poorly done to try and get the concept of entropy across.
Heck, Tenet did a better job of explaining entropy than this.
There’s a universe out there where someone threw an ice cube into a forest and ended Earth.
xue hua piao piao vibes from that one guy
That was a nice trailer for TENET… I cannot wait to watch this movie in the past!
You can explain It easier with socks. When you keep all your socks in one drawer, this drawer is concentrated in socks and there are less possibilities for the socks to be (less entropy and higher family order). If you have your socks all over the place, there are many possibilites for the socks to be (higher entropy and higher disorder)….they are disperse and the energy to find them is so high… that you even prefer to say that you have lost some socks. 😂😂
1:08 Energy isn’t stored in bonds. Common misconception. If that were true, why would you need to add energy in order to break the bonds?
I believe that entropy is not only mathematics, but also energy that humans haven’t figured out how to harness. Like the energy in a single lightening bolt for example. Entropy is the unknown … more than it is really known.
The intro music and the voice have an unpleasant tone
primero se debe ver TENET, despues ver este video, despues ver TENET nuevamente, para poder entender este video :v
It’s harder than quantum physics damn.
Some scholars in Translation studies use this concept metaphorically to conceptualize translation (entropy vs negentropy). I can’t get it.
If enthalpy increase the entropy will increase or decrease???
So microstates is not the right concept if you mix it with statistics.
This is by far the best explanation of entropy I’ve ever seen. I’ve been trying to understand the complex concept for a while now and now I finally get it! Science seems to have an endless list of awesome concepts doesn’t it?
Entropy is the natural order. I simply… Categorize the process.
-Alexander Nox
This info went through one ear and out of the exact same ear. It did a U turn because my brain said "no".
One question: Let’s say two identical substance with same energy (and Temp. ) interacts,
according to your explanation, it’s more likely to have different quantas for them after interaction,
implying that they will have different energy and temperatures, which is not the case in real life since they will have the same temperature…
OK…I think I understand why Christopher Nolan movies are confusing…. I’m not sure…I think
Energy tends to be a free
So —> to spread
So—> to be a messy
So—> it doesn’t tidy
Ok, but why there are many things -normally- in the life so tidy, systemic and organized (like the solar system and any organism)?
The new physics knocks at the door.
Two new physics lessons.
How to solve the two EXPERIMENTALLY PROVED physical paradoxes, which are described in the two links below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAydFMDKj2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX14NK8GrDY
I was literally Googling what entropy is yesterday and today I got this in my recommendation
Nice spying on me Google
mesures the difusion of *energy*
Sir, does entropy have anything to do with Schrodinger’s Equation?
If so, how are the concepts interrelated?
LOL , Chinese Eggman
I’m watching this video and I’m in class 10 still….
—nikhil VASHISTHA
From india…..
Consider a reaction which is endothermic. Yet it continues until the substance temperature drops to minus twenty degrees Celsius. How???
ENTROPY at its best👍💯.
I am going to unsub this channel after this video😏
So you proved statistics do not work on molecular level.
Entropy is not so complicated.. but video Is..