"I Live 20 Minutes from Centre City

question 38

Short Answer

"I live 20 minutes from Centre City." How is this statement similar to giving astronomical distances in light years?

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Definitions:

Chemical Reactions

Processes where substances interact to form one or more new substances with different chemical properties.

Second Law

This term is incomplete without a context but could refer to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.

Thermodynamics

The branch of physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Second Law

An ambiguous term that may refer to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium almost always increases.