entropy (IMAGE)

Penn State

entropy

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Entropy is the measure of the disorder in a system that occurs over a period of time with no energy put into restoring the order. Zentropy integrates entropy at multiscale levels.

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Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray/Jennifer M. McCann, Penn State

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