Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Rudolf Clausius

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.

German - Physicist | January 2, 1822 - August 24, 1888

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The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

Rudolf Clausius

The energy of the universe is constant.

Rudolf Clausius

In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

Rudolf Clausius

The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.

Rudolf Clausius

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

Rudolf Clausius

Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.

Rudolf Clausius

The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy of the universe is constant. 2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

Rudolf Clausius

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

Rudolf Clausius