Biology: Concepts and Applications (MindTap Course List)
Biology: Concepts and Applications (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Concepts of thermodynamics can be explained with two phrases: First, “you can never win” and second, “you can never break even”.

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Capacity to do work is known as energy. Thermodynamics is the study of heat and other forms of energy. There are two laws of thermodynamics: the first law and the second law.

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