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Entropy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A certain property of a body expressed as a measurable quantity such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes If a small amount h of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h divide t The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure Sometimes called the thermodynamic function

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