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Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that deals with heat, temperature, energy, and their relationship to work. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of thermodynamics, which apply across all materials and systems. Thermodynamics was initially developed to increase the efficiency of early steam engines and has since been applied to various topics in science and engineering, as well as the study of chemical compounds and reactions through chemical thermodynamics. Other formulations include statistical thermodynamics, which makes statistical predictions based on microscopic particle behavior, and Carathéodory's 1909 mathematical approach to thermodynamics through geometrical thermodynamics.

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Thermodynamics Is The Branch of

Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that deals with heat, temperature, energy, and their relationship to work. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of thermodynamics, which apply across all materials and systems. Thermodynamics was initially developed to increase the efficiency of early steam engines and has since been applied to various topics in science and engineering, as well as the study of chemical compounds and reactions through chemical thermodynamics. Other formulations include statistical thermodynamics, which makes statistical predictions based on microscopic particle behavior, and Carathéodory's 1909 mathematical approach to thermodynamics through geometrical thermodynamics.

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Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that has to do with heat and temperature and their

relation to energy and work. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of
thermodynamics, irrespective of the composition or specific properties of the material or system in
question. The laws of thermodynamics are explained in terms of microscopic constituents
by statistical mechanics. Thermodynamics applies to a wide variety of topics
in science and engineering, especially physical chemistry, chemical engineering and mechanical
engineering.
Historically, thermodynamics developed out of a desire to increase the efficiency of early steam
engines, particularly through the work of French physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1824) who
believed that engine efficiency was the key that could help France win the Napoleonic Wars.[1] Scots-
Irish physicist Lord Kelvin was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in
1854[2] which stated, "Thermo-dynamics is the subject of the relation of heat to forces acting between
contiguous parts of bodies, and the relation of heat to electrical agency."
The initial application of thermodynamics to mechanical heat engines was extended early on to the
study of chemical compounds and chemical reactions. Chemical thermodynamics studies the nature
of the role of entropy in the process of chemical reactions and has provided the bulk of expansion
and knowledge of the field.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Other formulations of thermodynamics emerged in the
following decades. Statistical thermodynamics, or statistical mechanics, concerned itself
with statistical predictions of the collective motion of particles from their microscopic behavior. In
1909, Constantin Carathéodorypresented a purely mathematical approach to the field in
his axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics, a description often referred to as geometrical
thermodynamics.

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