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thermodynamics

Why do wet clothes dry?

2021-12-052019-06-20 by KJ Runia
Clothes hang out to dry against a backdrop of mountains

We discuss the second law of thermodynamics, the notion of entropy, the statistical nature of the situation, and why wet clothes dry.

Categories Level 1 Undergraduate, Physics, Secondary ed level, Tutorial Tags boltzmann, entropy, gas, ludwig boltzmann, probabilities, probability, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics

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