Hot or Cold (Thermodynamics) Lesson 3 Flashcards
1
Q
The first law of Thermodynamics
A
States that heat is a form of energy, and thermodynamic processes are subject to the law of conservation of energy: energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another.
2
Q
The second law of thermodynamics
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Heat tends to flow spontaneously* from a hot body to a cold body.
*Spontaneously means it does it by itself without any input of work
3
Q
Entropy
A
The degree of disorder in a system
