Thermodynamics is the connection between heat and work in the universe and the conversion of one to another. There is so much information on this topic that it would be hard for me to elaborate on just one aspect of it, so I have decided to touch upon those basic subjects most relating to our everyday lives. When my research began I believed that this would mean spending most of my time on the First Law of Thermodynamics, but little did I know that it is the Second Law, with its relation to entropy, that most affects us.
In the days long gone, the Second Law of Thermodynamics-which predates the first law-was regarded as perhaps the most perfect and irrefutable law in all of science. It is used to calculate entropy, specific and latent heats, and transition properties, often with good accuracy. Important examples of this would be Planck's realization when staring into a furnace that he could find Avogadro's number, and Linus Pauling's highly accurate "back of an envelope" calculation of the residual entropy of ice. The law, theorized in the early 1800's by Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot and later refined by Ludwig Boltzman, states that in any spontaneous process the entropy of the universe increases as its reverse reaction happens as a result in the opposite direction. Still to this day not even the littlest exception to the law has been found. Albert Einstein put it best when referring to the second law in this way:.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression in which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that, within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts; it will never be overthrown.
Problems pertaining to the second law require the measurement of H to both the system and the surroundings, whether that system is either infinite or isolated.
Einstein then used Maxwell's equations and the laws of thermodynamics to explain these phenomena. ... Einstein based his special theory of relativity on a reinterpretation of the classical principal of relativity, which states that the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. ...
Although it is unfortunate for Thomasina to die without finishing her discoveries of various phenomena, such as thermodynamics, and Mathematical theory, such as iteration, like Septimus has said, they are not lost. ... The transformation of the garden mirrors an idea in science that in thermodynamics everything in order comes at a cost. ...
Dr. Stephen Hawking has been considered to be more brilliant then Einstein. Dr. Hawking was born on January 8 1942 in Oxford, England on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Is this a coincidence? After his studies at St. Albans School, he attended University College, Oxford. He wanted to study...
The fourth view, Integration, seeks a closer connection between science and religion, usually by the reformulation of classical religious doctrines. ... In some passages he compares it to the Platonic order of eternal forms, though of course for him the forms are not ideas in the mind of God as they were in classical thought. ...
