Lauri -- Well, let's see:
(1) First Law of thermodynamics: The total
energy of a thermodynamically isolated system
remains unchanged.
(2) Second Law of thermodynamics: If there are
any energy gradients in a system, they undergo
transformations from one form to another, with
some of it getting taken up as heat energy at
each step.
(3) Third Law of thermodynamics: At Zero degrees
Kelvin energy transformations must cease.
(4) Fourth Law of thermodynamics: Dissipative
structures in non-equilibrium conditions tend to
maximize their surfaces where energy
transformations take place.
Can we see in what ways these might be dependent of each other?
(1) All concern energy
(2) Numbers 2-4 concern energy transformations.
(3) Numbers 3 and 4 concern rates of energy transformations.
In what ways are they independent of each other?
(1) Number one establishes the condition of thermodynamic isolation.
(2) Number 2 establishes a necessary decay of a
system into unusable heat energy.
(3) Number 3 establishes a lower bound on rate of energy transformations.
(4) Number 4 establishes a relation between form
and rate of energy transformations.
There is currently being considered what might
become elevated to a Fifth Law -- the maximum
entropy production principle, to the effect that
a system connected to an energy gradient, if it
can reorganize to different conformations, will
tend to assume the one that maximizes its entropy
production from that gradient.
This, like 2-4 concerns energy transformations,
like 3 and 4 it concerns rates of energy
transformations, like 4 it concerns system form
in relation to energy dissipation. It differs
from 4 in its focus particularly on entropy
production rather than energy dissipation. Only
some energy dissipation needs to result in heat
energy, with some going to conformations of lower
potential energy gradient.
So, then, are these laws independent of each other?
STAN
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Hi all,
I am afraid that list can't be validated as a
set "laws". Laws should be independent of each
other.
Regards,
Lauri Gröhn
metacomposer
www.synestesia.fi
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