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Offline CKabes

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Shape of a Vessel/Entropy
« on: September 02, 2013, 05:41:02 PM »
Does the shape of a vessel affect the entropy of a system?

For example, If you filled a balloon with gas, and a long, thin pipe with the same amount of gas, will the entropy of the systems be the same?

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Re: Shape of a Vessel/Entropy
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2013, 10:05:55 PM »
Well what do you think?
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?  - Richard P. Feynman

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