A Brief History of Temperature Measurement

The biographies of 7 scientists who contributed to the subject of temperature measurements. A table of some significant temperatures is presented.

A Concise History of Thermodynamics

An overview of the history/evolution of thermodynamics. This is an excerpt from a biography of J. Willard Gibbs. The overview is available from the site in MS Word or pdf/Acrobat format.

Gas viscosity

Low temperature behavior of gases. Therminology and short explanations.

Handbook of thermodynamics and heat transfer

The information on thermodynamics, the properties of fluids and three modes of heat transfer is presented.

Heat engines

Rankine, Striling, Brayton, Kalina cycle engines description

Ideal Bose gas

physics of matter that has been cooled to near absolute zero

Refrigerator

The laws of thermodynamics and the thermodynamic origin of refrigerator.

Statistical physics

History of statistical physics and kinetic theory development.

The world of thermodynamics

the basic terms of thermodynamics, kinetic theory and three thermodynamics laws.

Thermodynamics

terms definitions and three laws of thermodynamics and its short history.

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics laws, Carnot Cycle and history of this branch of science.

Thermodynamics in Our Life

Created for students beginning the study of thermodynamics. This introductory description shows beginners the classical everyday application of this branch of science.