When the sun is high in the sky, it delivers approximately 1000 watts of power to each Square meter of earth’s surface. The temperature of tut surface of the sun is about 6000 K, while that of the earth is about 300 K.
(a) Estimate the entropy created in one year by the flow of solar heat onto a square meter of the earth.
(b) Suppose you plant grass on this square meter of earth. Some people might argue that the growth of the grass (or of any other living thing) violates the second law of
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