Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics
  A study of the transformation of energy from one form to another, and its practical application.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary
  see Law(s) of Thermodynamics.
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  A study of the transformation of energy into other manifested forms and of their practical applications. The three laws of thermodynamics are:
  • Law of Conservation of Energy - energy may be transformed in an isolated system, but its total is constant
  • Heat cannot be changed directly into work at constant temperature by a cyclic process
  • Heat capacity and entropy of every crystalline solid becomes zero at absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin)

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