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    Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈklaʊ̯zi̯ʊs]; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician...
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  • between two phases of matter of a single constituent. It's named after Rudolf Clausius and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. However, this relation was in fact...
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    violation of the Kelvin statement implies a violation of the Clausius statement, i.e. the Clausius statement implies the Kelvin statement. We can prove in...
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    by Rudolf Clausius and essentially describes how to measure the entropy of an isolated system in thermodynamic equilibrium with its parts. Clausius created...
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  • for "force" or "energy", and was given its technical definition by Rudolf Clausius in 1870. The significance of the virial theorem is that it allows the...
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    Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically explored by Rudolf Clausius in 1857, work that led to the fundamental thermodynamic concept of...
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  • In electromagnetism, the Clausius–Mossotti relation, named for O. F. Mossotti and Rudolf Clausius, expresses the dielectric constant (relative permittivity...
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    the system) is that of Rudolf Clausius. The opposite sign convention is customary in chemical thermodynamics. Clausius, Rudolf (1850). On the Motive Power...
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    The Clausius theorem (1855), also known as the Clausius inequality, states that for a thermodynamic system (e.g. heat engine or heat pump) exchanging...
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  • was derived by Clausius: ΔS=Q(1T2−1T1){\displaystyle \Delta S=Q\left({\frac {1}{T_{2}}}-{\frac {1}{T_{1}}}\right)} In 1856, Clausius stated what he called...
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    of entropy formulated by the famed mathematical physicist Rudolf Clausius. In 1865, Clausius coined the term "entropy" (das Wärmegewicht, symbolized S)...
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    particles of bodies. The process function Q was introduced by Rudolf Clausius in 1850. Clausius described it with the German compound Wärmemenge, translated...
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    amount of order or disorder in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion that any thermodynamic process always "admits to being...
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    was achieved (apparently independently) by August Krönig in 1856 and Rudolf Clausius in 1857. The state of an amount of gas is determined by its pressure...
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  • mechanical point of view of the second law of thermodynamics postulated by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin, according to which heat can only be transferred from...
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    the next two centuries by Daniel Bernoulli (1738) and more fully by Rudolf Clausius (1857), Maxwell and Boltzmann. This law was the first physical law...
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    mechanics did not differentiate between past and future motion, but Rudolf Clausius’ invention of entropy to describe the second law was based on disgregation...
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  • involved. It was named after the German physicist Rudolf Clausius and French physicist Pierre Duhem. The Clausius–Duhem inequality can be expressed in integral...
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    mare material, although the tiny satellite crater Clausius A lies just to the north. The rim of Clausius is low and sharp, with a slightly oval shape that...
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    in 1850 from Rudolf Clausius, and from William Rankine. Some scholars consider Rankine's statement less distinct than that of Clausius. The original...
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    attracted little attention during his lifetime, but it was later used by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin to formalize the second law of thermodynamics and define...
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  • 1850–51 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin & Rudolf Clausius: Second law of thermodynamics 1857 – Rudolf Clausius: Introduced translational, rotational, and...
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    Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics...
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  • structures, or other fixed works. Clausius–Clapeyron relation The Clausius–Clapeyron relation, named after Rudolf Clausius and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron...
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    of Fire. By 1860, as formalized in the works of scientists such as Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, what are now known as the first and second laws...
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    body could do work by pushing on it). In 1850, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius generalized this picture to include the concept of the surroundings...
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  • The concept entropy was first developed by German physicist Rudolf Clausius in the mid-nineteenth century as a thermodynamic property that predicts that...
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  • 19th century, later developments from scientists like August Krönig, Rudolf Clausius, James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann, gave rise to the kinetic...
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    Rudolph (name) (redirect from Rudolf)
    the boysenberry Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German inventor of the diesel engine Rudolf Erren (1899-unk...
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    content" H is associated with Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron and Rudolf Clausius (Clausius–Clapeyron relation, 1850). The term enthalpy first appeared in...
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