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1. Each time energy is converted from one form to another, some of the energy is always degraded to a lower-quality, more dispersed, less useful form. 2. No system can convert energy from one form to another useful for with 100 percent efficiency. 3. Energy cannot be spontaneously transferred from a cold body to a hot body. 4. The entropy of a system increases over time.
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| second law of thermodynamics |
With each change in form, some energy is degraded to a less useful form and given off into the surroundings, usually as low-quality heat. See also first law of thermodynamics.
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| second law of thermodynamics |
when energy is transformed, it becomes less useful; every process increases the disorder of the universe; no process is 100% efficient
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| second law of thermodynamics |
A statement of our experience that there is a direction to the way events occur in nature. When a process occurs spontaneously in one direction, it is nonspontaneous in the reverse direction. -
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