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Thermodynamics, as we have studied it so far, is referred to as Classical Thermodynamics and is built upon its empirical laws. They are called empirical because they are the results of observations through the years (Chapter 4) and their validity lies with the fact that they have never failed.
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Tassios, D.P. (1993). Elements of Statistical Mechanics. In: Applied Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01645-9_16
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