Assertion: When a glass of hot milk placed in a room is allowed to cool, its entropy decreases. Reason: Allowing the hot object to cool does not violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Assertion: When a glass of hot milk placed in a room is allowed to cool, its entropy decreases. Reason: Allowing the hot object to cool does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. Correct Answer Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

Both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion. As the milk cools, its temperature decreases. The decrease in temperature takes the milk to a lesser disorderly state. As the entropy is a measure of disorder, the entropy of the milk decreases.

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