Comment by fsurfer4 on 27/11/2024 at 23:08 UTC

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When heat transfers from a hot object to a cold object, it essentially "goes to" entropy, meaning the energy becomes more dispersed and disordered as it spreads out to the colder object, causing an overall increase in the system's entropy; this is a fundamental principle of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

https://openstax.org/books/physics/pages/12-3-second-law-of-thermodynamics-entropy[1][2]

1: https://openstax.org/books/physics/pages/12-3-second-law-of-thermodynamics-entropy

2: https://openstax.org/books/physics/pages/12-3-second-law-of-thermodynamics-entropy

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