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The Principles of Thermodynamics
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The Principles of Thermodynamics

by N.D. Hari Dass
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 56m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from The Principles of Thermodynamics
2
First Law—The E = Mc
2
of
Thermodynamics
There is a tendency, particularly among physicists, to view the rst law of thermody-
namics as merely a consequence of the energy conservation principle of mechanics.
That is to some extent a valid perspective today, when atomism has been rmly es-
tablished and when thermodynamics is seen as the effective description of a very
large number of these microscopic constituents in terms of a very few macroscopic
thermodynamic degrees of freedom. But such a perspective would hardly have been
justied at the times (middle of 19th century) when the rst law was established.
At that time, atomism was only a conjecture, ...
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