The air in this room consists of countless tiny, independent molecules. You can be sure that these air molecules won't all shift spontaneously to the other side of the room (leaving you in a vacuum) because that would

(A) violate Newton's laws of motion.

(B) be extremely unlikely and therefore violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

(C) violate Bernoulli's equation.

(D) not conserve energy and therefore violate the 1st law of thermodynamics.

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Tessa Flynn

5 April, 20:40

The air in this room consists of countless tiny, independent molecules. You can be sure that these air molecules won't all shift spontaneously to the other side of the room (leaving you in a vacuum) because that would

(A) violate Newton's laws of motion.

(B) be extremely unlikely and therefore violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

(C) violate Bernoulli's equation.

(D) not conserve energy and therefore violate the 1st law of thermodynamics.

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Micah Archer · Answer 1

(B) be extremely unlikely and therefore violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Explanation:

This process is highly unlikely and if happens would violet the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

The laws of motion do not rule out a move to one side of the room of all the air molecules. But it would be extremely unlikely to happen that. The second law of thermodynamics states that the universe responds to circumstances that become more and more likely, not improbable.