Explain, in one or two sentences, why the cooling of a hot metal block placed in a…

PHYSICS · Subjective · AP · Physics 2: Algebra-based · Thermodynamics · Thermodynamics

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Explain, in one or two sentences, why the cooling of a hot metal block placed in a much colder water bath leads to an increase in the entropy of the universe even though the entropy of the block itself decreases.

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