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Challenge: Problem 2

Consider how we calculate changes in entropy. Now, we have a mass of gas at a given temperature and pressure, and we want to work out what its total entropy is. How would we do this? Select items from the RESPONSE ARRAY which name the factors which will enter into our calculations.

1
heat transfer takes energy from hotter to cooler systems
2
thermal capacity
3
isothermal change
4
a change in volume
5
transfer of energy by work, involves no change in entropy
6
latent heat
7
adiabatic change
8
a change in temperature
9
internal energy does not consist only of thermal energy
10
the internal energy periodically returns to its initial magnitude
11
conversion of work into heat production, as in the case of friction
12
a change in internal energy
13
absolute temperature-measure of the intensity of thermal energy
14
internal transition from potential to thermal energy
15
work output by system
16
a change in entropy
17
the lower the intensity at which a transfer of energy takes place, the greater the increase of its extension within the system
18
external stores of thermal energy
19
changing entropy of a system by heat transfer to a cooler system
20
the entropy associated with thermal energy at zero intensity