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Heat as manufacturing power or the source of disorder?

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The notion of heat is thoroughly analyzed and historical links are discussed particularly with accentuation on its interdependence to contemporary thermal physics. Thermodynamics is discussed in relation to both the traditional development of equilibrium and the modern description of disequilibrium (related to real-open systems) as well as to the affiliated aspects of information. Dissipation is shown to provide a new kind of self-organized structure. Impact of mathematics is also displayed (fractal structures, bifurcations, vibration, topology, etc.). Exploitation of fire as an analytical tool and manufacturing power is analyzed. Generalized engines are shown in the sense of information transducers. The text gives a congruous view to various historical and modern concepts and gradual development of ideas that emerged during the continual understanding of order and disorder.

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  3. International School in Prague, State University of New York, Legerova 72, CZ-12000, Praha 2, Czech Republic

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Šestak, J. Heat as manufacturing power or the source of disorder?. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 69, 113–124 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019989707529

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