Timeline for Ownership of potential energy in thermodynamics
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| Sep 9, 2023 at 2:14 | comment | added | Bob D | But if one were to refer to the internal energy of an object-earth system one might include both the mechanical energy of the system together with the molecular KE and PE of all the components of the system, which is what I did in my answer | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 2:08 | comment | added | Bob D | Internal energy in thermodynamics generally refers to the KE and PE of the system at the atomic/molecular level, and not the KE or PE of the system, as a whole, including gravitational potential energy, called the mechanical energy of the system.. The general form of the first law does include mechanical energy. See my answer to the following post physics.stackexchange.com/questions/746969/… | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 1:50 | comment | added | Varidhi Shayana | Thank you. Does that mean the potential energy (in thermodynamics) refers only to (internal) conservative forces, acting between components of the same system? | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 1:40 | history | answered | Bob D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |