Interpretation:
A student opens a stack of new playing cards and shuffles them. In the light of the quoted paragraph, have the cards increased in entropy? Explain your answer in terms of
Concept introduction:
Entropy is an amount of the inaccessible energy in a closed thermodynamic system which is also generally considered to be a measure of the disorder of the system, which is a property of the state of the system, and that changes precisely with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly: the level of disorder or instability in a system.
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