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Im not satisfied with the answer: thats just what it is...... Because it kinda dosnt explain anything.
Please help me, anyone?
Please help me, anyone?
My intuition tells me exactly the same thing as well. But why energy like to be evenly distributed? This goes back to the old question. Because energy is more distributed or spread out when total entropy increase.Hmmm regarding heat flow from hot to cold: The hot body's molecules have higher kinetic energy so we would expect during colisions with the molecules of the cold body that the total kinetic energy would tend to be shared between the molecules. I mean at least my intuition about a collision tells me that is highly unlikely that the molecule with the higher kinetic energy will receive energy from the lower kinetic energy molecule while it will transfer much less energy to the lower KE molecule during the same collision.
Well at least in the case of heat flow we try to explain using the collision mechanism, because there is some sort of symmetry in a collision. When particle A collides with B and trasfers energy to B then B also collides with A and transfers energy to A. If B which is in lower energy manages to transfer big energy to A then A will manage to transfer even more energy to B. Otherwise it would be like there is some sort of different laws of nature for particle A than particle B.But why energy like to be evenly distributed? .
Two particles, one with more kinetic energy, one with less.Well at least in the case of heat flow we try to explain using the collision mechanism, because there is some sort of symmetry in a collision. When particle A collides with B and trasfers energy to B then B also collides with A and transfers energy to A. If B which is in lower energy manages to transfer big energy to A then A will manage to transfer even more energy to B. Otherwise it would be like there is some sort of different laws of nature for particle A than particle B.
At any rate it's not a trivial question because it implies that the universe started in an extremely ordered = statistically extremely improbable state (and this means REALLY EXTREMELY IMPROBABLE), which is one of the big puzzles when we take this view of purely statistical probability interpretation of entropy. But it's the best we have by now I believe.thank you guys. thats very helpful!