Talk:Thermodynamics

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	Thermodynamics has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
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Contents 1 Lord Ceder ??? 2 Wikipedian user boxes for those interested in thermodynamics 3 Unified thermodynamics 4 GA Sweeps (on hold) 5 Credit

[edit] Lord Ceder ???

someone appearently removed the picture from Carnot from this article and added instead a picture of Gerbrand Ceder, together with the statement that 'Many' would consider this person as the new lord of thermodynamic. The citation given is the research Pager of Dr. Ceder.

Although I cannot fully judge wether Dr. Ceder is worth mentioning at this position, i don't find any proof for the consideration as Lord of Thermodynamics in the citation. Mr Ceder would be the only person mentioned in the history of thermodynamics since 1849. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.94.232.86 (talk) 13:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedian user boxes for those interested in thermodynamics

[edit] Unified thermodynamics

Unified thermodynamics is pure nonsence. So I have removed it! CaptinJohn (talk) 10:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Sweeps (on hold)

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found that the following issues need to be addressed.

• Much of the article is missing inline citations. I realise the information is readily available in any textbook, but that should may it easier to find citable sources. Main articles of summary-style sections can probably be mined for appropriate references quite easily.
• The laws of thermodynamics section should be cleaned up to match proper style for embedded lists. Despite being covered in detail in their own article, I'd suggest expanding the information on each law a little more as well.
• The "Thermodynamic potentials" section needs improvement on jargon issues (for example, each of the variables in the equations needs explaining) and further wikilinking.
• Is there a reason for using numbered lists in the "Thermodynamic systems" and "Processes" sections? If not, bulleted lists should be used instead.
• Minor grammar: the first sentence of the "Classical thermodynamics" section is a run-on; I wasn't sure how best to fix it.

As long as work is being done towards fixing these issues, I see no reason to delist the article. Some other points/suggestions, unrelated to GA status:

• I find the lead moving image very distracting. I don't know if it's possible, but could it be changed to a startable-stopable movie?
• Is the a convenient way to expand the "Thermodynamic states" section? The summary style explanation given here seems a bit brief, but may well be complete as is.

Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far! --jwanders^Talk 18:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Credit

From the start of the article, it says that thermodynamics is a branch of physics and chemistry. . . . . no, clearly the thermodynamics is very important for chemistry, but the branch itself originated on physics and thus only belongs to physics. Application of thermodynamics on the field of chemistry is studied by Chemical thermodynamics and Thermochemistry. Otherwise, what these derivatives are for? I'm confused, you know.--Twicemost (talk) 05:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)