A violation of the second law of thermodynamics would occur if
a. a ball lying on the ground spontaneously moved to the top of a desk.
b. an object with low temperature transferred energy in the form of heat to an object with a higher temperature.
c. a motion picture was run backwards through the projector.
d. any of the above occurred.
e. (a) or (b) occurred, but not (c).
e
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