Enthalpy and Entropy - High School Physics
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Enthalpy is a measure of __________.
Enthalpy is a measure of __________.
Enthalpy, or 
, is the total energy of a thermodynamic system. Similar to how mechanical energy can change during mechanical processes, involving changing distances of velocities, enthalpy will increase or decrease with changes made to the thermodynamic state of the system. It is simply a measure for a different form of energy.
Enthalpy, or
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An ice cube melts into water. While it is melting, what is the temperature of the mixture doing?
An ice cube melts into water. While it is melting, what is the temperature of the mixture doing?
When an object is changing forms (solid to liquid in this case), the temperature remains constant. All of the energy that would normally go towards changing the internal temperature of the object is going into the latent heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion instead.
When an object is changing forms (solid to liquid in this case), the temperature remains constant. All of the energy that would normally go towards changing the internal temperature of the object is going into the latent heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion instead.
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Entropy is a measure of __________.
Entropy is a measure of __________.
Entropy is the measurement of disorder within a system, or how far it is from thermal equilibrium. Remember that everything in nature tends towards an equilibrium. The further from that equilibrium something is, the more "disordered" it is when compared to nature's preferred state.
Entropy is the measurement of disorder within a system, or how far it is from thermal equilibrium. Remember that everything in nature tends towards an equilibrium. The further from that equilibrium something is, the more "disordered" it is when compared to nature's preferred state.
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