How to Use thermodynamics in a Sentence

thermodynamics

noun

• Your first thought might be to object on the grounds of thermodynamics.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Like a social law of thermodynamics, what goes in, must come out.
  — Alex Cortez, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2021
• Much of the reason for the disparity comes down to thermodynamics.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022
• Now, mind you, the Steam Deck is not defying thermodynamics.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2022
• The laws of physics, most particularly in the realm of thermodynamics, ensure this.
  — Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• The one physics principle that is hard to spin positively is the second law of thermodynamics.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
• But there was a problem: this structure was difficult to reconcile with the laws of thermodynamics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• The answer turned out to be a simple exercise in thermodynamics.
  — Jen Wang, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2022
• The second law of thermodynamics assures us that nothing lasts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• According to the second law of thermodynamics, the total entropy of a closed system must increase, or at least remain constant.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
• Perhaps the best illustration is the discovery of the laws of thermodynamics, a cornerstone of all branches of science.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2021
• This observation broke the the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
• Exterior walls, windows, and cold floors may be as warm as 70 degrees Fahrenheit, but the thermodynamics are not working in your favor.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2021
• But the first law of thermodynamics says that matter and energy can never be destroyed or created.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 17 July 2022
• Maybe not thermodynamics, exactly; no physicist is going to applaud the lessons here.
  — James Ross Gardne, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
• But as the second law of thermodynamics dictates, the order life creates only results in more disorder elsewhere.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• But while the thermodynamics are straightforward, the deployment of cool surfaces turns out to be weirdly complicated.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 Oct. 2021
• Waste production is one infant behavior that even the most advanced civilization could not outgrow, since it is mandated by the laws of thermodynamics.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
• The idea that obesity is caused by positive energy balance is not an implication of thermodynamics or any other law of physics.
  — Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
• Fluid motion, thermodynamics of air and water, radiative transfer and the movement of the Earth on its orbit around the sun are all fundamental components that give rise to the complexity of the weather and climate system.
  — Gavin Schmidt, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2021
• It’s this ignorance of the microstates that compels classical thermodynamics to speak of averages and ensembles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2022
• In addition, the second law of thermodynamics signifies the statistical nature of the universe.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
• The actual scientific problems Hawking worked on, from cosmology to black hole thermodynamics to the black hole information paradox that he was obsessed with in his later years, are sketched out well.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• In those instances, his solution is to borrow math commonly used in thermodynamics to model outcomes using the correct average.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 14 Dec. 2020
• According to Variety, even in his final days, Arnold would take online classes in everything from thermodynamics to history to astronomy to enhance his knowledge and love of the subjects.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Seen in this way, the inexorable rise in entropy, or disorder, as quantified by the second law of thermodynamics, takes on an almost mathematical certainty.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Davidson had worked in lots of different areas from graphing to nuclear submarines to thermodynamics, to material sciences.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years, filmmaker Sen writes, few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2021
• Because nature abounds with irreversible physical processes, the second law of thermodynamics plays a key role in imprinting on the world a conspicuous asymmetry between past and future directions along the time axis.
  — Paul Davies, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
• Improved viticulture, better control of fermentation thermodynamics and the ability for winemakers to fly and work throughout the world have all been factors that have elevated the quality of international wines during the past 30 years.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024