The first law of thermodynamics is consistent with the law of conservation of

[/caption] Ever wonder how heat really works? Well, not too long ago, scientists, looking to make their steam engines more efficient, sought to do just that. Their efforts to understand the interrelationship between energy conversion, heat and mechanical work (and subsequently the larger variables of temperature, volume and pressure) came to be known as thermodynamics, taken from the Greek word “thermo” (meaning “heat”) and “dynamis” (meaning force). Like most fields of scientific study, thermodynamics is governed by a series of laws that were realized thanks to ongoing observations and experiments. The first law of thermodynamics, arguably the most important, is an expression of the principle of conservation of energy. Consistent with this principle, the first law expresses that energy can be transformed (i.e. changed from one form to another), but cannot be created or destroyed. It is usually formulated by stating that the change in the internal energy (ie. the total energy) contained within a system is equal to the amount of heat supplied to that system, minus the amount of work performed by the system on its surroundings. Work and heat are due to processes which add or subtract energy, while internal energy is a particular form of energy associated with the system – a property of the system, whereas work done and heat supplied are not. A significant result of this distinction is that a given internal energy change can be achieved by many combinations of heat and work. ...

Many power plants and engines operate by turning heat energy into work. The reason is that a heated gas can do work on mechanical turbines or pistons, causing them to move. The first law of thermodynamics applies the conservation of energy principle to systems where heat transfer and doing work are the methods of transferring energy into and out of the system. The first law of thermodynamics states that the change in internal energy of a system Δ U \Delta U Δ U delta, U equals the net heat transfer into the system Q Q Q Q , plus the net work done on the system W W W W . In equation form, the first law of thermodynamics is, So positive heat Q Q Q Q adds energy to the system and positive work W W W W adds energy to the system. This is why the first law takes the form it does, Δ U = Q + W \Delta U=Q+W Δ U = Q + W delta, U, equals, Q, plus, W . It simply says that you can add to the internal energy by heating a system, or doing work on the system. Nothing quite exemplifies the first law of thermodynamics as well as a gas (like air or helium) trapped in a container with a tightly fitting movable piston (as seen below). We'll assume the piston can move up and down, compressing the gas or allowing the gas to expand (but no gas is allowed to escape the container). The internal energy U U U U of our system can be thought of as the sum of all the kinetic energies of the individual gas molecules. So, if the temperature T T T T of the gas increases, the gas molecules speed up and the ...

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: • Explain the law of the conservation of energy. • Describe some of the many forms of energy. • Define efficiency of an energy conversion process as the fraction left as useful energy or work, rather than being transformed, for example, into thermal energy. Law of Conservation of Energy Energy, as we have noted, is conserved, making it one of the most important physical quantities in nature. The law of conservation of energy can be stated as follows: Total energy is constant in any process. It may change in form or be transferred from one system to another, but the total remains the same. We have explored some forms of energy and some ways it can be transferred from one system to another. This exploration led to the definition of two major types of energy—mechanical energy KE + PE KE + PE and energy transferred via work done by nonconservative forces ( W nc ) ( W nc ). But energy takes many other forms, manifesting itself in many different ways, and we need to be able to deal with all of these before we can write an equation for the above general statement of the conservation of energy. Other Forms of Energy than Mechanical Energy At this point, we deal with all other forms of energy by lumping them into a single group called other energy ( OE OE ). Then we can state the conservation of energy in equation form as 7.65 All types of energy and work can be included in this very general statement of conservat...

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The Laws of Thermodynamics The laws of thermodynamics involve the relations between heat and mechanical, electrical, and other forms of energy or work. The laws are valid only when applied to systems in thermal equilibrium and not for systems in the process of rapid change or with complicated states of transition. A system very nearly in equilibrium all the time is called a reversible system. The first law of thermodynamics The first law of thermodynamics is the restatement of conservation of energy. Mathematically, it reads Δ Q = Δ U + Δ W, where Δ Q is the heat energy supplied to the system, Δ U is the change in the internal energy, and Δ W is the work done by the system against external forces. It must be emphasized that these quantities are defined in general terms. The internal energy includes not only mechanical energy, but also the rotational and vibrational energy of the molecules, as well as the chemical energy stored in interatomic forces. Work is not only mechanical work but includes other forms, such as work done by electrical currents. Work Imagine a system of gas in a cylinder fitted with a piston, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 A cylinder filled with gas, with a piston. As the gas in the cylinder expands, the force exerted by the gas on the piston is F = PA. The piston moves up a distance Δ y; therefore, the work done by the gas is W = FΔ y= PAΔ y, or W = PΔ V because AΔ yis the increase in volume (V) of the gas. In general, work done by an expanding gas equ...

\( \newcommand\) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • learning objectives • Explain how the net heat transferred and net work done in a system relate to the first law of thermodynamics The first law of thermodynamics is a version of the law of conservation of energy specialized for thermodynamic systems. It is usually formulated by stating that the change in the internal energy of a closed system is equal to the amount of heat supplied to the system, minus the amount of work done by the system on its surroundings. The law of conservation of energy can be stated like this: The energy of an isolated system is constant. First Law of Thermodynamics: In this video I continue with my series of tutorial videos on Thermal Physics and Thermodynamics. It’s pitched at undergraduate level and while it is mainly aimed at physics majors, it should be useful to anybody taking a first course in thermodynamics such as engineers etc.. If we are interested in how heat transfer is converted into work, then the conservation of energy principle is important. The first law of thermodynamics applies the conservation of energy principle to systems where heat transfer and doing work are the methods of transferring energy into and out of the system. In equation form, the first law of thermodynamics is Internal Energy: The first law of thermodynamics is the conservation-of-energy principle stated for a system where heat and work are the methods of transferring energy for a system in thermal equilibrium....

https://phys.libretexts.org/@app/auth/3/login?returnto=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.libretexts.org%2FBookshelves%2FUniversity_Physics%2FBook%253A_University_Physics_(OpenStax)%2FBook%253A_University_Physics_II_-_Thermodynamics_Electricity_and_Magnetism_(OpenStax)%2F03%253A_The_First_Law_of_Thermodynamics%2F3.04%253A_First_Law_of_Thermodynamics \( \newcommand\) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: • State the first law of thermodynamics and explain how it is applied • Explain how heat transfer, work done, and internal energy change are related in any thermodynamic process Now that we have seen how to calculate internal energy, heat, and work done for a thermodynamic system undergoing change during some process, we can see how these quantities interact to affect the amount of change that can occur. This interaction is given by the first law of thermodynamics. British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow (1905–1980) is credited with a joke about the four laws of thermodynamics. His humorous statement of the first law of thermodynamics is stated “you can’t win,” or in other words, you cannot get more energy out of a system than you put into it. We will see in this chapter how internal energy, heat, and work all play a role in the first law of thermodynamics. Suppose \(Q\) represents the heat exchanged between a system and the environment, and \(W\) is the work done by or on the system. The first law states that the change in inter...