{"id":7355,"date":"2025-01-01T20:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:11:39","slug":"thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/thermodynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thermodynamics studies heat and temperature and their relationship to energy, work, and the properties of matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">a. <strong>Laws of Thermodynamics<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First Law<\/strong> (Conservation of Energy): Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transferred or converted from one form to another.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second Law<\/strong>: Entropy (disorder) in an isolated system always increases over time, leading to the direction of natural processes (e.g., heat flows from hot to cold).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Third Law<\/strong>: As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy of a system approaches a constant minimum.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">b. <strong>Heat and Temperature<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Heat<\/strong> is energy transferred between systems due to temperature differences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Temperature<\/strong> is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">c. <strong>Heat Engines<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A heat engine converts thermal energy into mechanical work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Carnot Cycle<\/strong>: The most efficient cycle for a heat engine, setting the upper limit of efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermodynamics studies heat and temperature and their relationship to energy, work, and the properties of matter. a. Laws of Thermodynamics b. Heat and Temperature c. Heat Engines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[755],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-physics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/physics-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7356,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions\/7356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}