isolated system
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isolated systems
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The second law says that the total entropy of an isolated system generally increases over time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Previous simulations had considered the solar system as an isolated system, a clockwork cosmos in which the main perturbations to planetary orbits were internal, resulting from asteroids.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
At the heart of the second law of infodynamics is the concept of entropy – a measure of disorder, which always rises over time in an isolated system.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023
The altimeter no longer just an isolated system that the pilot reads and interprets “In older generation airplanes, that was sort of an isolated system that the pilot would read and interpret,” he explained.
From The Verge ● Jan. 27, 2022
Experience never gives us an example of an isolated system; on the contrary, every system is a part of higher systems.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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