How Does The Second Law Of Thermodynamics Relate To The Direction Of Heat Flow?

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How Does The Second Law Of Thermodynamics Relate To The Direction Of Heat Flow?

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The second law of thermodynamics states that left to itself, a system's entropy will increase. A consequence of this is that net heat flow is from higher temperature objects to lower temperature objects. This happens because of the transfer of kinetic energy during the random collisions of atoms and molecules.

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