What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips

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What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips with tags ted, ted education, ted-ed, ted ed, jeff phillips, provincia studio, entropy, chemistry, physics, disorder, atomic bonds, energy, quanta, heat, microstate, dynamic system, energy spread

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-entropy-jeff-phillipsTheres a concept thats crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. Its entropy, and its notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy. Lesson by Jeff Phillips, animation by Provincia Studio.