Solution to problem no. 5

It decreases; entropy of liquids is smaller than entropy of the gaseous phase of the same amount of the same substance. The missing entropy was exported from the system to its surroundings. Therefore, the system is not isolated, since there is heat exchange. But it is closed, because there is no exchange of matter.


The picture compares the entropies (arbitrary units) of liquids and gases of same substance .


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