If entropy is a measure of disorder, how come mixing water and oil finishes in a well ordered, separate state?
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Homemade salad dressing separates into layers after it sits for a while. Why doesn't this violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Gibbs Paradox - why should the change in entropy be zero?
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When does order of partial derivatives matter?
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How do you prove the second law of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics?
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Why is the mole/"amount of substance" a dimensional quantity?
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Don't certain processes decrease entropy?
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Please clarify how entropy increases when matter gravitationally coalesces
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Entropy of sum is sum of entropies
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Gibbs free energy intuition
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How does gravity increase (or, at least, not-decrease) entropy?
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Entropy of an ideal gas in $T\to 0$ limit
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Why does the Coarse-grained Entropy increase?
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Problem about entropy
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Wavy stream of liquid
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Difference between irreversibility and entropy?
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Does anti-matter increase or decrease in entropy over time?
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Which experiment can differentiate a statistical mixture from a superposition state?