Thermodynamics | Wikipedia audio article
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Thermodynamics


00:01:53 1 Introduction
00:03:47 2 History
00:07:27 3 Etymology
00:08:30 4 Branches of thermodynamics
00:08:54 4.1 Classical thermodynamics
00:09:40 4.2 Statistical mechanics
00:10:27 4.3 Chemical thermodynamics
00:10:47 4.4 Equilibrium thermodynamics
00:12:00 4.5 Hierarchical thermodynamics
00:12:42 5 Laws of thermodynamics
00:17:23 6 System models
00:20:15 7 States and processes
00:22:08 8 Instrumentation
00:23:56 9 Conjugate variables
00:25:02 10 Potentials
00:26:34 11 Applied fields
00:26:43 12 See also
00:26:52 12.1 Lists and timelines
00:27:19 12.2 Wikibooks



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Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that has to do with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of thermodynamics, irrespective of the composition or specific properties of the material or system in question.  The laws of thermodynamics are explained in terms of microscopic constituents by statistical mechanics.  Thermodynamics applies to a wide variety of topics in science and engineering, especially physical chemistry, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering.
Historically, thermodynamics developed out of a desire to increase the efficiency of early steam engines, particularly through the work of French physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1824) who believed that engine efficiency was the key that could help France win the Napoleonic Wars. Scots-Irish physicist Lord Kelvin was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in 1854 which stated, "Thermo-dynamics is the subject of the relation of heat to forces acting between contiguous parts of bodies, and the relation of heat to electrical agency."
The initial application of thermodynamics to mechanical heat engines was extended early on to the study of chemical compounds and chemical reactions. Chemical thermodynamics studies the nature of the role of entropy in the process of chemical reactions and has provided the bulk of expansion and knowledge of the field. Other formulations of thermodynamics emerged in the following decades. Statistical thermodynamics, or statistical mechanics, concerned itself with statistical predictions of the collective motion of particles from their microscopic behavior. In 1909, Constantin Carathéodory presented a purely mathematical approach to the field in his axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics, a description often referred to as geometrical thermodynamics.