query: Why can't the entropy of an isolated system decrease?
positive_passages.docid: 44140
positive_passages.text: Chance of objects going against greater entropy?
negative_passages.docid: 106282
negative_passages.text: Entropy of an ideal gas in $T\to 0$ limit
negative_passages.docid: 45501
negative_passages.text: Why does the negative sign arise in this thermodynamic relation?
negative_passages.docid: 155552
negative_passages.text: Is it possible for a system to have negative potential energy?
negative_passages.docid: 51660
negative_passages.text: Don't certain processes decrease entropy?
negative_passages.docid: 38758
negative_passages.text: What is entropy really?
negative_passages.docid: 35671
negative_passages.text: Why can a discontinuous function not be differentiable?
negative_passages.docid: 152198
negative_passages.text: Is it possible for $\Delta x$ ($\sigma_x$) of any free particle wave packet to be decreasing at any time?
negative_passages.docid: 148959
negative_passages.text: Do the number of possible microstates increase as temperature decreases?
negative_passages.docid: 24172
negative_passages.text: Why does heat added to a system at a lower temperature cause higher entropy increase?
negative_passages.docid: 36008
negative_passages.text: Please clarify how entropy increases when matter gravitationally coalesces
negative_passages.docid: 135471
negative_passages.text: In wave motion of a string both kinetic energy and potential energy are minimum at $y=y_\text{max}$ then why does the string come down again?
negative_passages.docid: 70734
negative_passages.text: Entropy and the principle of least action
negative_passages.docid: 48497
negative_passages.text: Doesn't entropy increase backwards in time, too?
negative_passages.docid: 59757
negative_passages.text: Is a world with constant/decreasing entropy theoretically impossible?
negative_passages.docid: 6848
negative_passages.text: The strange thing about the maximum in Planck's law
negative_passages.docid: 119763
negative_passages.text: Why separation of variables works in PDEs?