A typical thermodynamic process consists of a redistribution that spreads a conserved quantity between a system and its surroundings across a previously impermeable but newly unchanging semi-permeable wall between them.
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Defined by change in a system, a "'thermodynamic process "'is a passage of a thermodynamic system from an initial to a final state of thermodynamic equilibrium.
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In general, during the actual course of a thermodynamic process, the system passes through physical states which are not describable as thermodynamic states, because they are far from internal thermodynamic equilibrium.
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For a simple system, with a constant number of particles, the difference in enthalpy is the maximum amount of thermal energy derivable from a thermodynamic process in which the pressure is held constant.
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In any thermodynamic process, whatever may be the intermediate conditions during the passage, the total respective change in the value of each thermodynamic state variable depends only on the initial and final states.
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In atmospheric thermodynamic processes, it is often useful to assume air parcels behave approximately specific gas constant for the standardized mass of one kilogram of a particular gas is variable, and described mathematically as:
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On the other hand, Planck in 1926 clarified how the second law can be stated without reference to heat or temperature, by referring to the irreversible and universal nature of friction in natural thermodynamic processes.
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A passage from a given initial thermodynamic state to a given final thermodynamic state of a thermodynamic system is known as a thermodynamic process; usually this is transfer of matter or energy between system and surroundings.
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It is determined through some convenient chain of thermodynamic operations and thermodynamic processes by which the given state can be prepared, starting with a reference state which is customarily assigned a reference value for its internal energy.
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Planck held that all " natural processes " ( meaning, in present-day terminology, a thermodynamic operation followed by a thermodynamic process ) are irreversible and proceed in the sense of increase of entropy sum.
