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[[Thermodynamics]]
# Summary
* Entropy describes energy's tendency to spread out and cause some of the energy to become useless.
* Entropy decreases when energy is organized, increases when spread out.
* Higher entropy means more useless energy.
* Total entropy of an isolated system never decreases over time.
* Entropy remains constant only in perfectly reversible processes (theoretical).
* IRL, entropy always increases.