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Section 5.1 gives two statements of the first law. On our way from them to the energy and its balance equation we shall encounter Joule’s relation of proportionality of work and heat in cyclic processes. Only the total energy occurs in this chapter; its splitting into the invariant internal energy and the kinetic energy is based on the invariance of the theory. This will be discussed in Chap. 6.
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Šilhavý, M. (1997). The First Law of Thermodynamics. In: The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continuous Media. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03389-0_6
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