Entropy and the Experience of Heat

We discuss how to construct a direct and experientially natural path to entropy as a extensive quantity of a macroscopic theory of thermal systems and processes. The scientific aspects of this approach are based upon continuum thermodynamics. We ask what the roots of an experientially natural approa...

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Published in:Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-05, Vol.24 (5), p.646
Main Authors: Fuchs, Hans U, D'Anna, Michele, Corni, Federico
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
conceptualization
early history of thermal physics
Electric rates
Electricity
Entropy
extensive quantity of heat
Heat
phenomenology
Science
teaching and learning of thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
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Summary:We discuss how to construct a direct and experientially natural path to entropy as a extensive quantity of a macroscopic theory of thermal systems and processes. The scientific aspects of this approach are based upon continuum thermodynamics. We ask what the roots of an experientially natural approach might be-to this end we investigate and describe in some detail (a) how humans experience and conceptualize an extensive thermal quantity (i.e., an amount of heat), and (b) how this concept evolved during the early development of the science of thermal phenomena (beginning with the Experimenters of the Accademia del Cimento and ending with Sadi Carnot). We show that a direct approach to entropy, as the extensive quantity of models of thermal systems and processes, is possible and how it can be applied to the teaching of thermodynamics for various audiences.
ISSN:1099-4300
1099-4300
DOI:10.3390/e24050646