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Parent topics

• Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. ^[e]
• Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. ^[e]
• Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems ^[e]

Subtopics

• Chemical thermodynamics [r]: The study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics. ^[e]
• Classical thermodynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Engineering thermodynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Physical chemistry [r]: The application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems within the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics. ^[e]
• Quantum thermodynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Statistical thermodynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Compressibility factor (gases) [r]: A thermodynamic property for modifying the ideal gas law to account for behavior of real gases. ^[e]
• Energy (science) [r]: A measurable physical quantity of a system which can be expressed in joules (the metric unit for a quantity of energy) or other measurement units such as ergs, calories, watt-hours or Btu. ^[e]
• Enthalpy [r]: Energy function of thermodynamic system equal to internal energy plus pV (pressure times volume). ^[e]
• Entropy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heat [r]: A form of energy that flows spontaneously from hotter to colder bodies that are in thermal contact. ^[e]
• Ideal gas law [r]: Relates pressure, volume and temperature for hypothetical gases of atoms or molecules with negligible intermolecular forces. ^[e]
• Internal energy [r]: Energy of a system in absence of interaction of the system with external fields ^[e]
• James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. ^[e]
• Joule-Thomson effect [r]: The increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is allowed to expand freely at constant enthalpy (meaning that no heat is transferred to or from the gas, and no external work is extracted from the gas). ^[e]
• Laws of thermodynamics
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rudolf Clausius [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Specific heat ratio [r]: The ratio of the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure, $C_{p}$, to the specific heat at constant volume, $C_{v}$, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. ^[e]
• William John Macquorn Rankine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Work [r]: Add brief definition or description