Thermodynamics MOC
Thermodynamics is the study of macroscopic quantities of matter and their thermal properties.
Key topics are Heat, Temperature, Work, Pressure, Phase change, State (see Macroscopic state variables of an ideal gas), Energy, Entropy, &c.
A temperature difference can lead to work, and conversely work can lead to a temperature difference.
Thermodynamics predates the atomic model. Statistical thermodynamics MOC is a much newer theory which accounts the macroscopic properties seen in thermodynamics using the microscopic atomic model.
- Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
- First law of thermodynamics
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Third Law of Thermodynamics
Key concepts
- Extensive and intensive parameters
- The relationship between temperature and heat in a solid or liquid
- Thermodynamic potential