Thermodynamics
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"It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information."--Gilbert Newton Lewis in a letter to Irving Langmuir, 5 Aug 1930 |
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Thermodynamics is a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation. It interrelates macroscopic variables, such as temperature, volume and pressure, which describe physical properties of material bodies and radiation, which in this science are called thermodynamic systems.
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Applied fields
- Atmospheric thermodynamics
- Biological thermodynamics
- Black hole thermodynamics
- Chemical thermodynamics
- Classical thermodynamics
- Equilibrium thermodynamics
- Geology
- Industrial ecology (re: Exergy)
- Maximum entropy thermodynamics
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics
- Psychrometrics
- Quantum thermodynamics
- Statistical thermodynamics
- Thermoeconomics
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See also
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Lists and timelines
- List of important publications in thermodynamics
- List of textbooks in statistical mechanics
- List of thermal conductivities
- List of thermodynamic properties
- Table of thermodynamic equations
- Timeline of thermodynamics
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