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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
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The Second and Third Laws
Soon after the rst law, it became clear that while the rst law, seen by many as
a manifestation of the conservation law for energy when thermal phenomena were
taken into account, while by some others like Sommerfeld [64] and Planck [57] as
an axiomatic law recognizing new forms of energy to which an extended form of
the conservation law can be applied, it still could not account for all facts of expe-
rience. For example, while rst law could quantitatively forecast the amount of heat
necessary to convert 1 gm of water at its boiling point to 1 gm of steam at the same
temperature, it can not explain why 1 gm of steam does ...
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