Unit_6_entropy.pptVIP

Entropy K.C. Cole Uni.of Southern California This is an essay to popularize scientific knowledge. ★ author and concept of entropy ★ features of entropy ★ 2 original ideas: Entropy is not inevitable everywhere,…Crystals and snowflakes and galaxies are islands of incredibly beauty in the midst of random events. Creating order in one corner of the universe always creates more disorder somewhere else. ★words associated with “entropy” Unit 6 Entropy K.C. Cole Uni.of Southern California The Author K.C. Cole, a long-time science writer for the Los Angeles Times, is a professor at USC Annenbergs School of Journalism. Described by Amazon. com as “the Leonardo da Vinci of science writing,” she is the author of eight nonfiction books. Cole’s recent radio commentaries can be heard on American Public Medias Marketplace; she was also a science commentator for KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) and year-end commentator for NPR’s Science Friday?and BBC’s World Service. Before coming to USC, she developed and taught courses on science writing and culture at Yale, Wesleyan and UCLA.. Unit 6 Entropy K.C. Cole Uni.of Southern California Her books: Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up First You Build a Cloud: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything Between the Lines: Searching for Space Between Feminism and Femininity and Other Tight Spots What Only a Mother Can Tell You About Having a Baby Entropy K.C. Cole Uni.of Southern California When the universe speaks, astronomers listen. When it sings, they swoon. -----Murmurs by K. C. Cole Unit 6 Entropy K.C. Cole Uni.of Southern California Rudolf Clausius, originator