shāng

technical
noun

Meaning of

熵 means entropy; the measure of unavailable thermal energy in a thermodynamic system, expressed as the quotient of the change in heat energy divided by temperature; (science and technology) a measure of the state of a material system; the degree of probability of a certain state occurring. Pronounced shāng.

  • entropy; the measure of unavailable thermal energy in a thermodynamic system, expressed as the quotient of the change in heat energy divided by temperature
  • (science and technology) a measure of the state of a material system; the degree of probability of a certain state occurring

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Gēn
xué
èr
dìng
 
tǒng
de
shāng
yǒng
yuǎn
huì
jiǎn
shǎo
 

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of an isolated system never decreases.

suàn
shāng
biàn
bāng
zhù
men
jiě
guò
chéng
de
xìng
 

Calculating the change in entropy can help us understand the irreversibility of processes.

Zài
zhè
ge
jué
péng
zhàng
guò
chéng
zhōng
 
tǒng
de
shāng
bǎo
chí
biàn
 

In this adiabatic expansion process, the entropy of the system remains constant.

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