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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
The Second and Third Laws 71
laws of thermodynamics can not be dependent on any particular temperature scale.
In fact, the rst law, in its purest formulation
¯
dQ = dU + dW, does not even refer to
temperature explicitly! The second law, in whatever form one chooses to consider,
does however involve temperature explicitly.
But as explained in the section (1.1), a change of temperature scale, of whatever
complexity, is like a change of coordinates, and perfect differentials transform quite
unambiguously under such transformations, leaving the basic relations between per-
fect differentials unaltered. All this really means is that all the thermodynamic ...
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