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> In Physics, entropy is a property of a bit of matter, it is not related to the observer or their knowledge. We can measure the enthalpy change of a material s
by nyssos 2y ago
> In Physics, entropy is a property of a bit of matter, it is not related to the observer or their knowledge. We can measure the enthalpy change of a material sample and work out its entropy without knowing a thing about its structure.
Enthalpy is also dependent on your choice of state variables, which is in turn dictated by which observables you want to make predictions about: whether two microstates are distinguishable, and thus whether the part of the same macrostate, depends on the tools you have for distinguishing them.
- kergonath 2y agoA calorimeter does not care about anyone’s choice of state variables. Entropy is not only something that exists in abstract theoretical constructs, it is something we can get experimentally.