History |
The developers of this law were Rudolf Clausius and William Rankie. It took half a century and countless trials and errors to come up with this law. Rankie created the template and Clausius improved upon it.
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A Deeper Look |
Essentially, the first law is a version of the Law of Conservation of Energy. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy shall not be created nor destroyed, only transformed. The following equation is a representation of this law: ᅀU=Q-W. WhereasᅀU is the change in internal energy, Q is the heat added and W is the work.
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