GEOG 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chemical Energy, Herbivore, Potential Energy

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Topic 1: assignment, 3 page written document, due september 24th, explore the emergence of complexity, flow as a consequent of gradient dissipation. Energy goes from high energy, to low energy: 2nd law of everything. Entropy: energy: capacity to do things (work, ex. A stick has energy, it can be lit on fire and use its potential energy: energy is formed into heat can be used to do work, energy can be changed, ex. Is the measure of dispersal of energy, every time you disperse energy from one form to another, you degrade it: t1>t2, t1 degrades until t1=t2, all natural systems spontaneously self organize to dissipate gradients. Paradox: if the universe naturally wants to go from high concentration to low, then why does life concentrate energy like carbon (ex. Humans getting food from other countries to feed own people) Evolution: constant adaptation to achieve equilibrium: a river will constantly change in attempt to (cid:498)stand still(cid:499) or dissipate an energy gradient.

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