For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

A fundamental rule that determines the fate of the universe The second law of thermodynamics means hot things always cool unless you do something to stop them. It expresses a fundamental and ...

Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay ...

However, a new study from researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) challenges this notion. It suggests that the entropy of a closed quantum system also increas ...

Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

Michael Bryant (retired) of the University of Texas at Austin, in a 2-part treatise ... developed an approach based on the ...

Second, the distribution of Δp between ΔΨ and ΔpH is determined by the balance between the uptake of ions such as Ca 2+ and the ... that contravene the laws of thermodynamics, or at least ...

Lectures, problem solving. A student who has completed this course will be able to articulate the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and use them in basic problem solving, be able to discriminate ...

Thermodynamics is the mathematical analysis of energy relationships. It is a scientific discipline concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It deals with the bulk ...