Clausius, Rudolph

Clausius, Rudolph Julius Emmanuel (1822-88) A German physicist noted for formulating the second law of thermodynamics in 1850 independent of Lord Kelvin. He introduced the concept of entropy, and also contributed to electrochemistry and electrodynamics. He held teaching posts in Berlin and Zurich before taking a post at Wurzburg in 1869. 

In 1859 Maxwell, who had just completed a famous essay on the structure of the rings of Saturn, chanced to read a paper by Rudolph Clausius on gas theory. Maxwell had proved that the rings had to be com-... 

This equation is known as the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888) was a prestigious nineteenth-century German scientist B. P. E. Clapeyron (1799-1864), a French engineer, first proposed a modified version of the equation in 1834. 

First law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) Rudolph Clausius... 

This law was formulated by Rudolph Clausius, a German physicist It is impossible for a machine, unaided by external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature that is, heat will not flow, of its own... 

Two statements of historical significance are given below. One is due to Rudolph Clausius, the other due to William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Max Planck ... 

The full mathematical development of the kinetic theory was undertaken in 1857 by Rudolph Julius Emmanuel Clausius (1822-1888) in Germany. By this time the concept of energy had been developed, and it was realised that the temperature of a gas was related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules. Clausius was able to derive all the familiar gas laws from the assumptions of the kinetic theory, and in his description of the chaotic motion of gas molecules he introduced the concept of mean free path,... 

Rudolph Clausius (Germany) enunciates the second law of thermodynamics. [1850]... 

The general principle was expressed by Rudolph Clausius in the words Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time. For use in the derivation to follow, the statement can be reworded as follows. 

The second law of thermodynamics has historically been a mysterious concept, and the basic idea has been verbalized by Clausius, Kelvin, Planck, and others for those who think in words. One simple statement by Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888) was... 

The equation can also be used for the transition of a solid to a liquid. The equation is named after German physicist Rudolph Clausius (1822-88) and French engineer Benoit Paul Smile Clapeyron (1799-1864). 

This relation for temperature is often referred to as the zeroth law of thermodynamics. However, in the spirit of Rudolph Clausius, we will view thermodynamics in terms of two fundamental laws of nature that are represented by the first and second laws of thermodynamics. 

Three historical milestones have established three corresponding distinct contextual paradigms for entropy. First, the property entropy was conceived by Rudolph Clausius in 1865, based largely on Sadi Carnot s work on maximizing the efficiency of cycUc... 

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