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Can someone help me understand entropy

Entropy- is a thermodynamic quantity that is a measure of the dispersion of energy of the system among the different possible ways that system can contain that energy. Thereby, reducing its ability to do work

If a system entropy value gets smaller; one can argue its ability to do work decreases because number of micro states of the system decreases?

Compare to if a system entropy gets larger, one can argue it has a higher chance to dispense its energy to the surrounding compare to a system with a lower entropy value?

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