I had a question asking which statements applied to the 2nd law of thermodynamics:
a) systems tend to move towards greater disorder
b) energy transfers are always accompanied by some amount of loss
c) energy is required for highly organized systems
d) for most systems, heat represents lost energy
e) all of the above
how come the answer was E? The second law I thought only discusses that spontaneous reactions increase in entropy of the universe and tend to do that for the surroundings and system as well (but not always).
a) systems tend to move towards greater disorder
b) energy transfers are always accompanied by some amount of loss
c) energy is required for highly organized systems
d) for most systems, heat represents lost energy
e) all of the above
how come the answer was E? The second law I thought only discusses that spontaneous reactions increase in entropy of the universe and tend to do that for the surroundings and system as well (but not always).