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Example sentences for: thermodynamics

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It was a profound insight in the development of equilibrium thermodynamics to recognize that the energy present in the thermal motions of an equilibrium gas system could not be extracted to do work.
The disorder of a system is called its entropy . The laws of thermodynamics tell us that closed systems tend to become more disorderly over time.
Such a law could be my hoped-for fourth law of thermodynamics for open self-constructing systems.
While his most radical work is captured in the Maxwell equations for electromagnetic fields, which introduced the fundamental concept of fields into physics, Maxwell concerned himself deeply with the puzzle Carnot had raised in what is now called the second law of thermodynamics.
Despite the unanimous support of the institute's tiny School of Social Science and a search committee's favorable vote, the institute's director ruled against the appointment of Princeton University Professor M. Norton Wise, co-author of a prize-winning book on 19 th century thermodynamics expert Lord Kelvin.