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Laws of Thermodynamics

2016
It is extremely difficult to establish the term heat within the framework of the phenomenological thermodynamics with a sufficient degree of precision. We will manage that very much smoother by the means and methods of Statistical Mechanics. In thermodynamics we are forced in a certain sense to accept an intuitive self-concept of this term.
Wolfgang Nolting
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The Laws of Thermodynamics

2018
The discussion in the previous chapter focussed heavily on the amount of energy in a system. But how did that energy get there in the first place—and what is energy, anyway? Energy is a central idea in physics, but like other basic precepts of the world in which we live, we really have no idea what it is.
Theodor Wulf
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The laws of thermodynamics

2009
The law of conservation (under transformation) of energy also goes under the somewhat old-fashioned and pompous name “the first law of thermodynamics”. The second and third laws will soon be revealed. For now we consider just the first.
M. Volkenstein
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The Laws of Thermodynamics

1988
In the previous chapter we began our study of the structure of matter by considering bulk matter in its most unstructured state, namely in its perfect gas state. We saw there that the general properties and gross behavior of this state of matter can be understood in terms of three measurable macroscopic quantities: the pressure, the temperature, and ...
Jefferson Hane Weaver, Lloyd Motz
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The Laws of Thermodynamics

1995
In the last section we realized that heat is nothing but a special form of energy. This was the discovery of R.J. Mayer (1842). The perception of heat as energy which is statistically distributed among the particles of a system, was established by Clausius (1857): he introduced the statistical concept of the mean square of the velocity and derived the ...
Walter Greiner, L. Neise, Horst Stöcker
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