One of the greatest inventions is the steam engine. But why? What makes it so useful? And how does it work? In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how engines work, what makes them efficient, and why they're...

Have you ever heard of a Perpetual Motion Machine? More to the point, have you ever heard of why Perpetual Motion Machines are impossible? One of the reasons is because of the first law of thermodynamics! In this episode of Crash Course...

Entropy (Part 3/4)

Entropy (Part 2/4)

It explains the application of first law in terms of work. It describes the isothermal and free expansion of an ideal gas, enthalpy,intensive and extensive properties.

Isothermal Reversible Process

In chemistry we talked about the first law of thermodynamics as being the law of conservation of energy, and that's one way of looking at it, but physicists like doing math more than chemists do, so let's talk about the first law in...