Though a cornerstone of thermodynamics, entropy remains one of the most vexing concepts to teach budding physicists in the classroom. Physics teachers designed a hand-held model to demonstrate the ...

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: The study of systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium, focusing on the flows of energy and matter and the production of entropy.

The microscopic origin of thermodynamics A SISSA study sheds light on the role of the entropy in a quantum system Date: July 25, 2017 Source: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati ...

Entropy production during the fatigue process can serve as a measure of degradation. We postulate that the thermodynamic entropy of metals undergoing repeated cyclic load reaching the point of ...

A. Kleidon, A basic introduction to the thermodynamics of the Earth system far from equilibrium and maximum entropy production, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 365, No. 1545, ...

An international team of physicists kept solid gold intact while superheating it to 19,000 Kelvin, about 33,740 degrees ...

The perceived arrow of time, however, seems largely independent of anything entropy or thermodynamics may do. What, if anything, happens when we bring the expanding Universe into the equation?

With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – raising questions about what the true limits are ...