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I like most of Veritasium’s videos because they usually explain correctly – and in a simple way – some points that are incorrect in common or standard explanations, owing to over-simplification (the video about electric current is a good example).
But this particular video on entropy unfortunately suffers from that very problem. Many statements are slightly or completely incorrect, others are so hand-waving (“energy spreads”?) as to become pointless. I hope the next one will be better.
It reminds me of a limerick by the thermodynamicist M. W. Zemansky:
I like most of Veritasium’s videos because they usually explain correctly – and in a simple way – some points that are incorrect in common or standard explanations, owing to over-simplification (the video about electric current is a good example).
But this particular video on entropy unfortunately suffers from that very problem. Many statements are slightly or completely incorrect, others are so hand-waving (“energy spreads”?) as to become pointless. I hope the next one will be better.
It reminds me of a limerick by the thermodynamicist M. W. Zemansky: