For each of the following processes, specify whether entropy incr...

Question

For each of the following processes, specify whether entropy increases or decreases. Explain each of your answers.

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Accepted Answer

Welcome back. Everyone does. The following process have increasing or decreasing entropy and we need to label why? So our process given is spinning several cotton fibers into a ball of yarn. The key word is that we have several cotton fibers that were organizing into just a single ball of yarn. If we recall that entropy represented by the symbol S describes the disorder or chaos slash randomness of a system, then we can understand that with an increase in order we would have a negative entropy change. And so we would have a decrease in entropy. So if we're spinning our cotton fibers, which we have several of we have less order when we have several cotton fibers versus a single bottle of yarn will signify more order. So we go from less order to more order, meaning that therefore our entropy change is going to be negative because entropy is going to decrease since we will have less chaos being created when we have just a single ball of yarn that organizes all of our cotton fibers. This means that choice a which states that the process has decreasing entropy because a ball of yarn is more ordered than several cotton fibers is going to be the only correct choice to complete this example. As our final answer, I hope that this made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

For each of the following processes, specify whether entropy increases or decreases. Explain each of your answers. Assembling a jigsaw puzzle

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