By 
Jeff Phillips
 | 
TED-Ed Original

What is entropy?

There's a concept that's crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts why cream spreads in coffee why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.

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