thermodynamics | has synonym statistical mechanics | ![has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0 has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0](facet.gif) |
has definition The study of the behavior of heat (and, by implication, other forms of energy) in changing systems. | ![has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0 has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0](facet.gif) |
has definition Laws developed in the nineteenth century to describe aspects of heat, work, energy, entropy, and their mutual evolution in a physical system. | ![has source: Greene, B. 1999 The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0 has source: Greene, B. 1999 The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0](facet.gif) |
has definition The area of physics that analyzes the behavior of a system with very many members, such as a gas with many individual molecules. In such a situation, the behavior of the whole system is obtained by averaging over the behavior of individual members. | ![has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0 has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0](facet.gif) |
is a kind of physics | ![2001-09-27 09:32:31.0 2001-09-27 09:32:31.0](facet.gif) |