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  2. Thermodynamic state - Wikipedia

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    Temperature (T) represents the average kinetic energy of the particles in a system. It's a measure of how hot or cold a system is. Pressure (P) is the force exerted by the particles of a system on a unit area of the container walls. Volume (V) refers to the space occupied by the system.

  3. Laws of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Heat transfer is the natural process of moving energy to or from a system, other than by work or the transfer of matter. In a diathermal system, the internal energy can only be changed by the transfer of energy as heat: Δ U s y s t e m = Q . {\displaystyle \Delta U_{\rm {system}}=Q.}

  4. Conservative temperature - Wikipedia

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    Conservative temperature is defined to be directly proportional to potential enthalpy. It is rescaled to have the same units as the in-situ temperature: = where = 3989.24495292815 J kg −1 K −1 is a reference value of the specific heat capacity, chosen to be as close as possible to the spatial average of the heat capacity over the entire ocean surface.

  5. Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    For example, a pressure reservoir is a system at a particular pressure, which imposes that pressure upon the system to which it is mechanically connected. The Earth's atmosphere is often used as a pressure reservoir. The ocean can act as temperature reservoir when used to cool power plants.

  6. Thermal pressure - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Thermal pressure as a function of temperature normalized to A of the few compounds commonly used in the study of Geophysics. [3]The thermal pressure coefficient can be considered as a fundamental property; it is closely related to various properties such as internal pressure, sonic velocity, the entropy of melting, isothermal compressibility, isobaric expansibility, phase transition ...

  7. Thermodynamic equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    where T denotes the absolute thermodynamic temperature, P the pressure, S the entropy, V the volume, and U the internal energy of the system. In other words, Δ G = 0 {\displaystyle \Delta G=0} is a necessary condition for chemical equilibrium under these conditions (in the absence of an applied voltage).

  8. Thermodynamic equations - Wikipedia

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    (Note - the relation between pressure, volume, temperature, and particle number which is commonly called "the equation of state" is just one of many possible equations of state.) If we know all k+2 of the above equations of state, we may reconstitute the fundamental equation and recover all thermodynamic properties of the system.

  9. Gas laws - Wikipedia

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    The laws describing the behaviour of gases under fixed pressure, volume, amount of gas, and absolute temperature conditions are called gas laws.The basic gas laws were discovered by the end of the 18th century when scientists found out that relationships between pressure, volume and temperature of a sample of gas could be obtained which would hold to approximation for all gases.