isolated system
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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
In liquid water, proton transfer is the only reaction mechanism, whilst, in the isolated system, electron-transfer dominates and proton-transfer is a minor channel, but could still be identified in DESIREE.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 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
In an isolated system the trend of change must be in the direction which increases the entropy ϕ, by Clausius’ form of the principle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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