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Brief Note on Classification of Thermodynamics

Janku Murray^{* *}Correspondence: Janku Murray, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State, USA, Email:

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Description

Regardless, the concepts are the same: energy can be added to a group of molecules to cause a reaction, or a reaction can be caused by adding energy to a group of molecules to take place between a group of molecules in order to release energy [1]. Thermodynamics is a vital subject of physics as well as chemistry. It is concerned with the study of energy, its conversion between different forms, and its ability to do work. Thermodynamics arose from a desire to improve the efficiency of early steam engines, notably through the work of French physicist Sadi Carnot (1824), who believed that engine efficiency was the key to France's victory in the Napoleonic Wars [2].

Thermodynamics is Classified into Four Categories

Statistical thermodynamics

Boltzman is one of the most well-known fathers of statistical thermodynamics, which looks at the universe at the microscopic, atomic scale and seeks to understand phenomena that classical thermodynamics only looked at at a macroscopic scale. Statistical thermodynamics, unlike classical thermodynamics, involves additional assumptions for an adequate modelling of matter and is not merely deductive [3]. The assessment for consistency between the findings obtained by two forms of thermodynamics is a straightforward and initial step in validating these assumptions.

The idea of temperature is given a molecular meaning (related to the average energy of a molecule in a piece of matter) by statistical thermodynamics, whereas the concept of entropy is simplified by its statistical meaning [4].

Chemical thermodynamics

Free energy differences regulate chemical thermodynamics and kinetics. Statistical mechanics can determine these through sampling approaches. An outstanding assessment of recent advances in this field has been written. It is simple to do free energy calculations at the semiempirical QM/MM level using any of these approaches (as proved in several recent applications), but with ab initio or DFT QM components, the necessary sampling becomes expensive. This is why studies of QM/MM free energy on P450 enzymes are still uncommon. According to the data, the disparities between QM/MM energy and free energy profiles in enzymatic processes tend to be minor as long as local chemical events (e.g., hydrogen abstraction in P450, OH transfer in P450) are studied PHBH and fluorinase nucleophilic substitution). Thus, for reactions of this type, the less demanding DFT/MM geometry optimization studies that are commonly performed for P450 enzymes can provide valuable mechanistic information [5,6].

Equilibrium thermodynamics

For over a century and a half, equilibrium thermodynamics has been an unrivalled success as a theory in chemistry and materials science. Can we claim that it is impervious to falsification? We could argue that equilibrium theory, as a mathematical structure developed by Gibbs, is unfalsifiable. Equations 15 and 16, for example, are derived directly from the analytical properties of the Gibbs function. Mathematical truths, on the other hand, only lead to other mathematical truths.

They are not falsifiable through experimentation. The link to the empirical world is made possible by the presence of observable quantities in equations 15 and 16. These equations link one set of experimental results to another. As a result, they can be useful or useless, but they cannot be false.

Conclusion

According to the first classification of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed in form. When using the first law of thermodynamics to analyse an open system, the energy entering the system equals the energy leaving the system. The second class of thermodynamics is an expression of the universal law of increasing entropy, which states that the entropy of an isolated system that is not in equilibrium tends to increase as time passes, approaching maximum price equilibrium.

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