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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
- noun Thermodynamic phenomena and processes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The general mathematical doctrine of the relations of heat and elasticity, or of temperature, volume, pressure, and mechanical work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics The
science of theconversions betweenheat and other forms ofenergy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy
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Ditto to what Lawyer Mom said, really, weaving in thermodynamics is lacking in content?
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I wasn†™ t very good in thermodynamics, but my guess is that the cloak is endothermic somehow, and it sucked all the heat from inside the bubble.
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Not only a world class writer, shooter and all around gentleman, but and expert in thermodynamics as well.
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The next Nobel Prize given for work in thermodynamics went to Lars
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Not only a world class writer, shooter and all around gentleman, but and expert in thermodynamics as well.
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With an understanding of this, you will see how the impossibility of perpetual motion machines as per the law of thermodynamics is intricately linked to the impossibility of the self generation of an information producing (better than chance performance) system.
Bird Teeth 2008
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Most important these genetic instructions are not the kind of information that you find in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; rather, they constitute semantic information.
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I wasn†™ t very good in thermodynamics, but my guess is that the cloak is endothermic somehow, and it sucked all the heat from inside the bubble.
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Statistical thermodynamics is based on the fact that what we experience as heat is actually an outward manifestation of molecular and atomic motion.
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Onsager's relations are utilized, the classical principles of equilibrium in thermodynamics still show that linear systems close to equilibrium always develop into states of disorder which are stable to perturbations and cannot explain the occurrence of ordered structures.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 - Presentation Speech 1977
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