Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic Laws:

Zeroth law -- Any two bodies in equilibrium with a third body are in equilibrium with each other.

First law -- Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Second law -- The entropy of an isolated system can never decrease.

Third law -- Every system has a finite, positive entropy; the entropy of any system approaches zero as its temperature approaches absolute zero.

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