If a goldfish swimming in a bowl of water at 20 degrees C transfers 120J of heat to the water as a result of its metabolism over a period of time, what is the change in entropy of the water? Make sure you get the SIGN right!
Entropy is the measure of total disorderness or randomness.
The relation between change in entropy with flow of heat at certain temperature is
= Change in entropy
Q= Heat flow which is positive.(heat flow into the reservoir is positive)
T= temperature in kelvin
Now we have
Now apply
So the change in entropy is 0.40JK-1.
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