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Home > Iowa Academy of Science > Journals & Newsletters > Iowa Science Teachers Journal > Volume 9 > Number 3 (1972)

 

Document Type

Article

Abstract

"You can't unscramble an egg." This phrase and many others throughout literature are examples of what physicists have come to call entropy. The concept of entropy is unique because, unlike the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy, there is no principle of conservation of entropy.

Publication Date

April 1972

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers' Journal

Volume

9

Issue

3

First Page

6

Last Page

9

Copyright

© Copyright 1972 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

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