Today we are delving into an experiment that is a study in Thermodynamics which is defined as the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy (such ...

Physicists at West Virginia University have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics. West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old ...

In 1867, the Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, published a thought experiment showing how to extract heat from a container of gas. Maxwell dreamt up a container divided in half by a wall with a ...