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1. Read the text below. Catch the content. What is the text
about? Formulate a suitable headline. What are the main
subjects handled in the text? Write an English summary of at
least 3 correct sentences, using your own words.
Essentially, thermodynamics can be defined as the study of energy.
Granted, this is a pretty broad definition, which suits it well, because
thermodynamics is fundamentally a broad topic. The word
thermodynamics always seems to crop up whenever matter and
energy interact. The foundation of thermodynamics rests in a few basic
concepts. The First Law of Thermodynamics is a simple expression of
the conservation of energy principle. Energy may transfer from one
form to another, but in such a way that the total energy at any instant
always remains constant. The second law is a restriction of the first
law, telling us whether or not a process is actually possible in the real
world. The condition of a thermodynamic system described by its
properties (temperature, pressure, etc.) is defined as its state. At a
given state, all properties of a system have fixed values. In an
equilibrium state there are no unbalanced potentials within the system
(e.g. the driving potential for heat flow is temperature difference).
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