Chapter 10, Problem 10.30PAE

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

A student opens a stack of new playing cards and shuffles them. In the light of the quoted paragraph, have the cards increased in entropy? Explain your answer in terms of thermodynamics. Explain the agent (the shuffler) undergoes an increase in entropy.

Concept introduction:

Entropy is an amount of the inaccessible energy in a closed thermodynamic system which is also generally considered to be a measure of the disorder of the system, which is a property of the state of the system, and that changes precisely with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly: the level of disorder or instability in a system.