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.
It most likely that if you put a warm and cold object side by side, the warm object will cool down and the cold object will warm up. Explain using 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
- Composer Andre Luiz Machado
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Addison Anderson
