jbay comments on Entropy and Temperature - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jbay 24 December 2014 02:30:49AM 0 points [-]

A tennis ball is a multi-particle system; however, all of the particles are accelerating more or less in unison while the ball free-falls. Nonetheless, it isn't usually considered to be increasing in temperature, because the entropy isn't increasing much as it falls.