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The 78 pages that link to Thermodynamics, each with the reason it gives.

• Statistical mechanicsNarrower topic: Statistical mechanics supplies a microscopic foundation for thermodynamic laws.

• Heat transferNarrower topic: Heat transfer concerns energy movement within the broader study of thermal systems.

• SolvationNarrower topic: Thermodynamics explains whether solvation is energetically favorable.

• RefrigerationNarrower topic: Its second law explains why moving heat from cold to warm requires external work.

• MetabolismNarrower topic: Thermodynamics provides the general laws that constrain metabolic energy conversions.

• Max PlanckNarrower topic: Planck approached radiation through thermodynamic principles rather than a mechanical model of light.

• Ludwig BoltzmannNarrower topic: Boltzmann sought to ground its laws in the motion of atoms and molecules.

• Heat exchangerNarrower topic: Its conservation laws and efficiency limits govern every exchanger design.

• Le Chatelier's principleNarrower topic: The principle is a qualitative corollary of the second law and Gibbs energy minimization.

• Boyle's lawNarrower topic: Boyle's law is an empirical gas relation used within thermodynamic descriptions.

• Air conditioningNarrower topic: Its energy principles explain why cooling requires work and heat rejection.

• Steam locomotiveNarrower topic: A steam locomotive’s power cycle is governed by heat transfer and energy conversion.

• CompressorNarrower topic: It describes the energy and temperature changes accompanying gas compression.

• Pressure cookingNarrower topic: Pressure cooking applies thermodynamic relationships between pressure, temperature, and phase changes.

• Rayleigh–Jeans lawNarrower topic: Classical equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical physics formed the setting for radiation theory.

• Stirling engineNarrower topic: It supplies the laws governing the engine’s heat input, work output, and efficiency.

• James Prescott JouleNarrower topic: Joule’s work helped make energy conversion central to the emerging field.

• RefrigeratorNarrower topic: Its laws set the energy requirements and limits of refrigeration.

• PsychrometricsNarrower topic: Psychrometrics applies thermodynamic principles specifically to moist-air mixtures.

• ThermogenesisNarrower topic: Its energy accounting explains why metabolic conversion cannot capture all energy as useful work.

• Joseph BlackNarrower topic: Black’s distinction between temperature and heat quantity anticipated foundational questions in thermodynamics.

• Waste heat recoveryNarrower topic: Its laws set the limits on how much rejected heat can become useful work.

• Internal BallisticsNarrower topic: It supplies general principles for analyzing hot propellant gases and energy transfer.

• Josiah Willard GibbsNarrower topic: Gibbs gave thermodynamics a powerful framework for describing equilibrium and energy.

• BiophysicsNarrower topic: Its energy and entropy principles constrain biological processes.

• Pierre DuhemNarrower topic: Duhem made foundational contributions to its theoretical foundations.

• Heat death of the universeNarrower topic: Its concepts of equilibrium and available work define what heat death means.

• Nonequilibrium thermodynamicsNarrower topic: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics extends its state-based framework beyond equilibrium.

• Caloric theoryNarrower topic: Thermodynamics replaced caloric explanations with laws of energy and heat transfer.

• Compressed-air energy storageNarrower topic: Its laws govern compression work, heat transfer, and expansion output.

• Perpetual motion machineNarrower topic: The impossibility of perpetual motion is a central foundation of thermodynamics.

• Kelvin scaleNarrower topic: Thermodynamic laws underpin the absolute scale Kelvin proposed.

• Constantin CarathéodoryNarrower topic: His axiomatic formulation made thermodynamics a subject of mathematical analysis.

• Leidenfrost effectNarrower topic: The effect links heat transfer, phase change, and mechanical support.

• Phase ruleNarrower topic: The phase rule applies thermodynamic equilibrium principles to systems with multiple phases.

• Rankine scaleNarrower topic: The scale arose from the need for absolute temperature in thermodynamic calculations.

• Lord KelvinNarrower topic: Its laws supplied the framework for Kelvin’s theories of heat and energy.

• Nicholas Georgescu-RoegenNarrower topic: Its laws supplied the physical constraints he believed economic analysis could not ignore.

• William John Macquorn RankineNarrower topic: Rankine’s contributions helped establish this broader science of energy and transformation.

• Ilya PrigogineNarrower topic: Prigogine extended thermodynamic reasoning beyond systems in equilibrium.

• Chemical engineerNarrower topic: Thermodynamics sets limits on reaction equilibria, separations, and energy use.

• Crocco's theoremNarrower topic: Entropy and enthalpy bring thermodynamics directly into Crocco's fluid-motion relation.

• Energy engineeringNarrower topic: Its laws set the limits on every energy conversion process.

• History of the steam engineNarrower topic: Steam-engine performance helped prompt the quantitative study of heat and work.

• Macroscopic scaleNarrower topic: It supplies the principal laws for describing bulk systems.

• Materials modelingNarrower topic: Its state functions and phase equilibria constrain material predictions.

• Stokes's law of sound attenuationNarrower topic: Acoustic absorption converts organized wave energy into internal thermal energy.

• Thermal engineeringNarrower topic: Its laws set the limits and balances used to design thermal systems.