Many solid materials "remember" their past. A piece of metal may respond differently after being stretched, heated, or cooled, and memory materials rely precisely on this kind of history-dependent ...

The Laws of Thermodynamics are the foundation of heat transfer and energy work. When any engineer is designing or implementing a system, the consideration of heat loss or energy produced is influenced ...

In the loop: PhD student Monika Monika takes a closer look at the negative-temperature experimental setup in Jena. (Courtesy: Ira Winkler/University Jena) Researchers in Germany and the US have ...

Quantitatively connecting the thermodynamics and dynamics of a model glass provides insight into the fragile-to-strong crossover.

The diagram shows the temperature-entropy plot for an Ideal Otto cycle. Temperature (1) is the inlet gas temperature, T(2) is the temperature after the gas is adiabatically compressed in the ...