Q: What is the loss of energy available to do work called?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

15.6 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Disorder and the Unavailability of Energy • Entropy is the loss of energy available to do work. • Another form of the second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system either increases or remains constant; it never decreases. • Entropy is zero in a reversible process; it increases in an irreversible process. • The ultimate fate of the universe is likely to be thermodynamic equilibrium, where the universal temperature is constant and no energy is available to do work. • Entropy is also associated with the tendency toward disorder in a closed system.

 Choices:

- negentropy

- force

- power

- entropy


A:
entropy