According to Arnold Sommerfeld, Ralph H . Fowler invented the title'the zeroth law of thermodynamics'when he was discussing the 1935 text of Saha and Srivastava.
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For example, the zeroth law of thermodynamics states that if two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other.
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One statement of the zeroth law of thermodynamics is that if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other.
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The "'zeroth law of thermodynamics "'states that if two thermodynamic systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
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The zeroth law of thermodynamics in its usual short statement allows recognition that two bodies in a relation of thermal equilibrium have the same temperature, especially that a test body has the same temperature as a reference thermometric body.
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It is the special and uniquely distinguishing characteristic of internal thermodynamic equilibrium that this possibility is not open to thermodynamic systems ( as distinguished amongst physical systems ) which are in their own states of internal thermodynamic equilibrium; this is the reason why the zeroth law of thermodynamics needs explicit statement.
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The theoretical basis for thermometers is the zeroth law of thermodynamics which postulates that if you have three bodies, A, B and C, if A and B are at the same temperature, and B and C are at the same temperature then A and C are at the same temperature.
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Eu proposes consequently that the zeroth law of thermodynamics can be considered to apply even when thermodynamic equilibrium is not present; also he proposes that if changes are occurring so fast that a steady temperature cannot be defined, then " it is no longer possible to describe the process by means of a thermodynamic formalism.
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They then in a self-standing paragraph italicize as if to state their basic postulate : " " Any of the physical properties of A which change with the application of heat may be observed and utilised for the measurement of temperature . " " They do not themselves here use the term'zeroth law of thermodynamics '.
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As it is customarily stated in textbooks, taken alone, the so-called " zeroth law of thermodynamics " fails to deliver this information, but the statement of the zeroth law of thermodynamics by James Serrin in 1977, though rather mathematically abstract, is more informative for thermometry : " Zeroth Law There exists a topological line M which serves as a coordinate manifold of material behaviour.
