>>12906734Never, because the vast majority of people who get exposed to the concept are normie pre-meds in general chem, where they don't have the background and the material doesn't have the bandwidth to have the underlying concepts more formally introduced. Not to mention, the professor is an assistant professor who doesn't give a shit and needs to plow through the material to get back to the lab before the decision on tenure comes.
>>12907300Bingo. I didn't really *start* to grasp entropy until my first year of graduate school. Now as a postdoc I feel like I still have to go back from time to time.
