"'[E]nergy supplied as heat' appears in the numerator of Clausius' expression, for the greater the energy... as heat, the greater... increase in disorder and therefore... entropy. The... temperature in the denominator fits... this analogy too... for a given supply of heat... [added to] a cool [little thermal motion] object... will introduce a... [relatively large] disturbance, corresponding to a big rise in entropy... [and the same heat added to a] hot [lots of thermal motion] object has relatively little effect, and the increase in entropy is small."

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