Question

8. Will entropy increase or decrease in the following
changes and give reasons for your answer
(b) Water freezes to form ice.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Generally, entropy is defined as a measure of randomness or disorder of a system. This concept was introduced by a German physicist named Rudolf Clausius in the year 1850. Apart from the general definition, there are several definitions that one can find for this concept. The two definitions of entropy that we will look here are the thermodynamic definition and the statistical definition. From a thermodynamics view point of entropy we do not consider the microscopic details of a system