Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Since, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, internal energy can be created at the expense of mass through nuclear reaction (according to the famous relation E = mc2, where c is the velocity of light and m is the rest mass), Eq. (2.1.1) must be restricted to systems that are not subjected to nuclear reaction. Alternatively, we can think of ∆U as the change of internal energy due to absorption of heat and work and the change of energy due to a change of the rest mass, ∆mc2.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ganguly, J. (2008). First and Second Laws. In: Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77306-1_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77306-1_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-77305-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-77306-1
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)