Thermodynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In physics, thermodynamics (from the Greek θερμ-<θερμότης , therme, meaning "heat" and δυναμις, dynamis, meaning "power") is the study of the conversion of energy into work and heat and its re...
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Murphy's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Murphy's law is an adage that broadly states: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern ver...
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The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: in every contact of matter with matter, some matter will become unavailable for future use, thus some matter is wasted. "Some" is not to imply "minute". Yet the waste of energy is always measureable, while the waste of matter is not.
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First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another.
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10+ variations of the fourth law of thermodynamics ... The first, however, to have actually stated that their principle may actually be a fourth law of thermodynamics was the physical chemist Alfred Lotka. In his 1922 energetics articles, he defines energy flux as the available energy absorbed by and dissipated with in...
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[18] Caratheodory, C. (1908). Investigations into the Foundations of Thermodynamics. [in: Kestin, J. (1976). The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Bench Mark Papers on Energy; vol. 5. pp 229-56. New York: Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross.];
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5. de Groot, S. R., Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1951). ... 11. Landsberg, P. T., Thermodynamics with Quantum Statistical Illustrations (Wiley, Interscience, New York, 1961).
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There is no accepted or established "fourth law of thermodynamics". There are, however, numerous authors who have postulated versions of fourth laws to explain certain aberrant phenomena. The following link gives over fifteen diff...
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The 2nd law of thermodynamics predicts that entropy (chaos) cannot diminish in equilibrium systems, ... The fourth law can be summarized, "Nature abhors a gradient", for gradients represent Gibbs free energy, producing wave growth. The fastest growing are the most unstable modes, those that produce the most entropy,
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