descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 1991 English Publisher:Macmillan Education UK

Authors: Michael Sprackling;

doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-21377-1_4 , 10.1007/978-1-349-12690-3_4

The first law of thermodynamics

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This chapter starts by looking more closely at the work interaction between a system and its surroundings. The systems usually first discussed in an elementary treatment of classical thermodynamics remain at rest in the laboratory. Therefore, when work is done on such a system, it does not suffer changes in its bulk kinetic or potential energies. A major aim of this chapter is to investigate the effects of doing work on a system when there are no changes in the bulk kinetic and potential energies.

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