Classes in thermodynamics do not belong to the students' favourite ones. Inappropriately lectured, thermodynamics is usually associated with a set of facts loosely related to each other. A new ...

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Raykh and his colleagues discovered that strongly magnetized particles can bend the laws of thermodynamics. Credit: Anthony Raykh/UMass Amherst A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student ...

A VERY useful account is given in this book, from an engineering point of view, of the application of thermodynamics to the theory of the steam engine, mechanical refrigeration, steam nozzles, steam ...

Craig Callender worries that the analogy between black holes and thermodynamics has been stretched too far. In the early 1970s, people studying general relativity, our modern theory of gravity, ...