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Thermodynamics is the theory of the interaction of heat and work and of their relationship to the physical properties and processes in material systems, dealt with at the macroscopic scale. One of its principal uses is therefore to provide constraints on the constitutive equations that describe the state of systems or the processes occurring in them. The foundation of thermodynamics consists of a minimal number of postulates or empirical laws drawn from experience. However, it has also been proposed that it can be regarded as being rooted in some universal and fundamental concepts of symmetry or invariance under transformation that apply to physical laws. The scope of thermodynamics has traditionally been limited mainly to systems in equilibrium but has more recently been extended to deal also with non-equilibrium situations. We shall give here a brief summary of the principal results of these two branches of the theory.
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Paterson, M.S. (2013). Thermodynamics. In: Materials Science for Structural Geology. Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5545-1_2
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