What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips
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There’s a concept that’s crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It’s entropy, and it’s notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Jeff Phillips
- Director
- Iuri Araujo, Guilherme Araujo
- Script Editor
- Eleanor Nelsen
- Animator
- Iuri Araujo, Guilherme Araujo
- Compositor
- Andre Luiz Machado
