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    In thermodynamics, the volume of a system is an important extensive parameter for describing its thermodynamic state. The specific volume, an intensive...
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    Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of...
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    The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the context of thermodynamic processes. The law distinguishes...
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    The second law of thermodynamics is a physical law based on universal empirical observation concerning heat and energy interconversions. A simple statement...
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  • In thermodynamics, the specific volume of a substance (symbol: ν, nu) is a mass-specific intrinsic property of the substance, defined as the quotient...
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    passed into the water as heat. A pre-supposed guiding principle of thermodynamics is the conservation of energy. The total energy of a system is the sum...
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    The term and the concept are used in diverse fields, from classical thermodynamics, where it was first recognized, to the microscopic description of nature...
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    The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system at thermodynamic equilibrium approaches a constant value when its temperature...
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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize...
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    known as thermodynamics, the science of energy transformations. Stemming from the 1850s development of the first two laws of thermodynamics, the science...
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  • Volume (thermodynamics) Volume (computing), a storage area with a single filesystem, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk Volume (video...
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    The zeroth law of thermodynamics is one of the four principal laws of thermodynamics. It provides an independent definition of temperature without reference...
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  • Chemical thermodynamics is the study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines...
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    The history of thermodynamics is a fundamental strand in the history of physics, the history of chemistry, and the history of science in general. Owing...
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    ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. Berkeley Physics Course Volume 1. Charles Kittel, Walter D Knight and Malvin A Ruderman The Laws of Thermodynamics Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback...
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    In thermodynamics, an isochoric process, also called a constant-volume process, an isovolumetric process, or an isometric process, is a thermodynamic...
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    Heat (redirect from Heat (thermodynamics))
    In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference. In colloquial use, heat sometimes refers to...
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    Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics that deals with physical systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium but can be described...
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    separate from its surroundings that can be studied using the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamic systems can be passive and active according to internal...
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    In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process, involving a system and its surroundings, whose direction can be reversed by infinitesimal changes...
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  • free dictionary. Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics. It is an internal state of a single thermodynamic system, or a relation...
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    In thermodynamics, the thermodynamic free energy is one of the state functions of a thermodynamic system (the others being internal energy, enthalpy, entropy...
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    the change in pressure P with respect to volume V for some process or processes. Typically in thermodynamics, the set of processes forms a cycle, so that...
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    closely but not actually reached, as recognized in the third law of thermodynamics. It would be impossible to extract energy as heat from a body at that...
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    In physics, black hole thermodynamics is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons...
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    Thermodynamics is expressed by a mathematical framework of thermodynamic equations which relate various thermodynamic quantities and physical properties...
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    In thermodynamics, the internal energy of a system is expressed in terms of pairs of conjugate variables such as temperature and entropy, pressure and...
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    potentials; each potential is a different expression of the others. In thermodynamics, external forces, such as gravity, are counted as contributing to total...
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    reversible is called irreversible. This concept arises frequently in thermodynamics. All complex natural processes are irreversible, although a phase transition...
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  • system through this reversible process, dwrev. But from the first law of thermodynamics, dE = δw + δq. Therefore, dS=δ⟨qrev⟩T{\displaystyle dS={\frac {\delta...
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