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The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Heart
Future Cardiology, 2012The second law of thermodynamics explains the phenomenon of irreversibility and the increasing entropic trend of nature. Similar to human-made machines, living structures are subjected to entropy generation, becoming 'worn' and 'damaged' from use. However, they have the possibility of eluding or deferring these processes.
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The first law of thermodynamics
1991This chapter starts by looking more closely at the work interaction between a system and its surroundings. The systems usually first discussed in an elementary treatment of classical thermodynamics remain at rest in the laboratory. Therefore, when work is done on such a system, it does not suffer changes in its bulk kinetic or potential energies.
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The First Law of Thermodynamics
2014It is our daily experience that heat can be converted to work, and that work can be converted to heat. A propeller mounted over a burning candle will spin when the heated air rises due to buoyancy: heat is converted to work. Rubbing your hands makes them warmer: work is converted to heat.
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
2014In our qualitative description of processes we have already emphasized the trend of any isolated system towards an unique and stable equilibrium state. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the quantitative formulation of this observation. Its importance goes well beyond the computation of the unique equilibrium states for isolated systems. In particular,
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The laws of relativistic thermodynamics
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1977Abstract The physical quantities which occur in the laws of relativistic thermodynamics are defined as statistical expressions of relativistic kinetic theory. The role of the hydrodynamic velocity field is discussed.
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The Postulates and Laws of Thermodynamics
2012The points of view about the behavior of macroscopic systems arising from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are compared and contrasted. The concept of a state function is explained, and the postulates of thermodynamics, which describe fundamental properties of the entropy, are presented.
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, 2006 Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation
Nature, 2020David W Sanders +2 more
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