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thermodynamics comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has synonym	has definition
physics	science		The scientific study of the interactions of matter and energy.
thermodynamics	physics	statistical mechanics	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.

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