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Jipu 123

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Explain the following statement: In any natural process, some energy becomes unavailable to do useful work.
 
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The force between two quarks increases with separation.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



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Answer to Question 1

In any process, no energy is ever lost (it is always conserved). Rather, energy becomes less useful - it can do less useful work. As time goes on, energy is degraded, in a sense; it goes from more orderly forms (such as mechanical) eventually to the least orderly form, internal, or thermal energy. Entropy is a factor here because the amount of energy that becomes unavailable to do work is proportional to the change in entropy during any process.

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Reply 2 on: Jul 29, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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