When I try to explain the boundary layer, laminar flow, turbulent mixing, entropy, and autopsies to them, there eyes just glaze over. |
How is it that microphysics is time-reversible, yet macroscopic systems show increasing entropy? |
In a reversible process, the total change in entropy in the system and the total change in entropy in the surroundings is zero. |
In thermodynamics one divides any heat loss or gain by the temperature, and one obtains then a quantity that is called the change in entropy. |
The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional. |
This study also bears on the nature and importance of changes in the configurational entropy on binding. |