ession of this so
called &quot;Law&quot;. Among the more popular statements which
reflect the general understanding of the &quot;Second Law of
Thermodynamics&quot; are the following: &quot;In a closed system,
entropy does not decrease&quot;, &quot;The state of order in a
closed system does not spontaneously increase without the
application of work&quot;, &quot;Among all the allowed states of
a system with given values of energy, number of particles and
constraints, one and only one is a stable equil