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This chapter examines the origin of entropic forces. These forces are compared with forces that arise from interaction potentials, like gravitational and electrical forces.
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The main cause of the space shuttle Challenger disaster was decreased rubber elasticity in the solid rocket booster O-rings due to the unusually low temperatures before launch.
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Sharp, K. (2019). Entropic Forces. In: Entropy and the Tao of Counting. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35457-2_4
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