thermodynamics

IPA: θˈɝmoʊdaɪnˈæmɪks

(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Examples of "thermodynamics" in Sentences

The next Nobel Prize given for work in thermodynamics went to Lars
Ditto to what Lawyer Mom said, really, weaving in thermodynamics is lacking in content?
Not only a world class writer, shooter and all around gentleman, but and expert in thermodynamics as well.
I wasnâ€ ™ 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.
Statistical thermodynamics is based on the fact that what we experience as heat is actually an outward manifestation of molecular and atomic motion.
Most important these genetic instructions are not the kind of information that you find in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; rather, they constitute semantic information.
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.
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.