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Hi Everyone - I hope
everyone has a Merry
and Safe Christmas.
Lenz's Law
Experiments:
I have had some
trouble fully
understanding Lenz's
Law. It turns out
maybe this is the
case for many
people, I studied
Lenz's Law for a few
months off and on
and have seen some
very good data.
Lenz's Law is
directly related to
the second Law of
Thermodynamics.
"The Second Law of
Thermodynamics
states that "in all
energy exchanges, if
no energy enters
or leaves the
system, the
potential energy of
the state will
always be less than
that of the initial
state." This is also
commonly referred to
as entropy. A watch
spring-driven watch
will run until the
potential energy in
the spring is
converted, and not
again until energy
is reapplied to the
spring to rewind it.
A car that has run
out of gas will not
run again until you
walk 10 miles to a
gas station and
refuel the car. Once
the potential energy
locked in
carbohydrates is
converted into
kinetic energy
(energy in use or
motion), the
organism will get no
more until energy is
input again. In the
process of energy
transfer, some
energy will
dissipate as heat.
Entropy is a measure
of disorder: cells
are NOT disordered
and so have low
entropy. The flow of
energy maintains
order and life.
Entropy wins when
organisms cease to
take in energy and
die."
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