Entropy & spontaneity

Entropy is paradoxically probably one of the hardest and one of the easiest topics to teach! Hardest because a full understanding of entropy really requires knowledge of statistical thermodynamics; easiest because at this level it can be related simply to the idea of disorder and the questions asked in the examination are usually very straightforward.If you tell your students that "nature tends to disorder" which is...

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