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Papers scattered randomly across the desk represents high entropy and are a good example of which law?

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Entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness of a system.

The trend of a system toward disorder or randomness is stated by the law of disorder of a system.or second law of thermodynamics.

This law states that the particles of a system are more likely to exist in in a high state of disorder (mixed) than in a low stated of disorder (not mixed but in a beautiful order). The analogy of entropy as a measure of the papers scattered randomly across the desk, indicates that the papers will not get back in order unless you put a lot of energy to put order.
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