Estimate the change in the entropy of the universe due to

Chapter 3, Problem 12P

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Problem 12P

Estimate the change in the entropy of the universe due to heat escaping from your home on a cold winter day.

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QUESTION:

Problem 12P

Estimate the change in the entropy of the universe due to heat escaping from your home on a cold winter day.

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Solution to 12P

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We need to find the change in entropy of the universe due to the heat escaping from a typical house on a cold winter day,

Let us take the computations we had performed in 2.59P of this text book. We had computed the total heat lost from a typical house. The value is calculated as 7.1x1011J

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