From the point of view of the study of energy and its transformations, which has been one of the major themes of this course, thermodynamics provides us with the last missing pieces: it is here that w...From the point of view of the study of energy and its transformations, which has been one of the major themes of this course, thermodynamics provides us with the last missing pieces: it is here that we find out what thermal energy really is, and how it is different from other forms of energy (so much so, that we say that energy has been “dissipated” or “lost” when it becomes thermal energy).
