{"id":9005,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/second_law_of_thermodynamics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:52","slug":"second_law_of_thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/second_law_of_thermodynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Second law of thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deals with the direction in which any chemical or physical process involving energy takes place. &nbsp;Both temperature and entropy determine the direction in which such an irreversible process can go. &nbsp;For a closed system, it states that the entropy increases over time. &nbsp;Consequently, according to this law, there can never be such a thing as a perpetual motion machine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"closed_system\">Closed system<\/a>, <a href=\"entropy\">Entropy<\/a>, <a href=\"irreversible_thermodynamics\">Irreversible thermodynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"open_system\">Open system<\/a>, <a href=\"order\">Order<\/a>, <a href=\"self-organization\">Self-organization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deals with the direction in which any chemical or physical process involving energy takes place. &nbsp;Both temperature and entropy determine the direction in which such an irreversible process can go. &nbsp;For a closed system, it states that the entropy increases over time. &nbsp;Consequently, according to this law, there can never be such a thing as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/second_law_of_thermodynamics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second law of thermodynamics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}