Classical thermodynamics

"...all the signs suggest that the main principles of thermodynamics from the classical theory will not only rule unchallenged but will more probably become correspondingly extended."

Max Planck on quantum theory, Nobel Lecture, June 2, 1920

B

• Boyle's law
• Boyle temperature

C

• Capillary waves
• Carnot cycle
• Charles's law
• Chemical potential
• Clausius-Clapeyron relation
• Clausius theorem
• Compressibility
• Compressibility factor
• Critical points

D

• Dalton's law

E

• Energy equation
• Enthalpy
• Extensive properties

F

• First law of thermodynamics

G

• Gay-Lussac's law
• Gibbs-Duhem relation
• Gibbs-Helmholtz equations
• Gibbs energy function

H

• Heat
• Heat capacity
• Helmholtz energy function
• Henry's law

I

• Intensive properties
• Internal energy

J

• Joule-Thomson effect

M

• Maxwell's relations
• Maxwell's equal area construction

P

• Pressure

R

• Raoult's law

S

• Second law of thermodynamics
• Stirling cycle

T

• Temperature
• Thermal expansion coefficient
• Thermodynamic integration
• Thermodynamic potential
• Thermodynamic relations
• Triple point

W

• Work

Z

• Zeroth law of thermodynamics

General reading

• Max Planck "Treatise on Thermodynamics", Dover Publications ISBN 048666371X