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thermodynamics
(statistical mechanics)

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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 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 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 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
is a kind of physics


thermodynamics (statistical mechanics)
subject			fact

thermodynamics	has synonym statistical mechanics
	has definition The study of the behavior of heat (and, by implication, other forms of energy) in changing systems.
	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 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.
	is a kind of physics