ITU International Science and Engineering Summit (SES) 2026

Session

Thermodynamics Session

6 May 2026, 10:30

Turgut Özal School of Foreign Languages Congress and Student Social Center, A 174 (İTÜ Ayazağa Campus)

Conveners

Thermodynamics Session: Entropic Forces

• Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

6. Entropic Forces

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

06/05/2026, 10:30

According to the second law of thermodynamics, systems always evolve toward states with higher entropy that means higher number of possible configurations. When a system is constrained, it resists these constraints to regain its freedom, thereby generating a measurable macroscopic force, called "entropic force".
Essentially, entropic force is a physical observable force, in which a system...