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The degree of randomness or disorder in a system is known as entropy


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Generally, the entropy is defined like this.
"The degree of randomness or disorder in a system is known as entropy.
Mathematically,
It may be defined as the integral of all the terms involving heat exchanged (1) divided by the absolute temperature (T) during each infinitesimally small change of the process carried out reversibly at constant temperature.
ds=1Tdq rev


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