The entropy of an object is a measure of the amount of energy which is unavailable to do work.
•Entropy is also a measure of the number of possible arrangements the atoms in a system can own.
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•Some very useful mathematical ideas about probability calculations emerged from the learning of entropy.
•The word entropy came from the learning of heat and energy in the period 1850 to 1900.
•In this sense, entropy is a measure of uncertainty or randomness.
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