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Gordon W.F. Drake
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Professor of Physics, University of Windsor, Ontario. Editor of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Handbook.

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Close-up view of a cutaway automobile engine showing metal pistons moving within their cylinders, with visible valves and springs above.
Entropy, the measure of a system’s thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work. Because work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system. The concept of entropy provides…
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