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A woman shuts her summer cottage up in September and
Chapter 15, Problem 28(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 28CQ
A woman shuts her summer cottage up in September and returns in June. No one has entered the cottage in the meantime. Explain what she is likely to find, in terms of the second law of thermodynamics.
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Problem 28CQ
A woman shuts her summer cottage up in September and returns in June. No one has entered the cottage in the meantime. Explain what she is likely to find, in terms of the second law of thermodynamics.
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The cottage is shut down in September and opened in June; a time gap of 9 months is obtained.
But because of the lack of movement in the cottage the dust flying around must have settled and hence almost everything in the cottage will be covered in dust. This is the
Major change in the cottage as per the second law of thermodynamics, since there occurs a sudden drop in the entropy of the same, which cause the dust possessing greater entropy to settle down.