Thermodynamics and Physical Chemistry Song by Flanders and Swann
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Think thermodynamics and physical chemistry are not much fun?
Here is a song by Flanders and Swann recorded many years ago that explains the laws of thermodynamics very clearly. They say:
The First Law of Thermodynamics: Heat is work and work is heat
That is all there is to it really.
Then they sing,
The Second Law of thermodynamics: Heat cannot by its self pass from one body to a hotter body
Then they go on to jazz it up…
That’s entropy man
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