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'''Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius''' ({{IPA-de|ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈklaʊ̯zi̯ʊs}};<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dudenredaktion|last2=Kleiner|first2=Stefan|last3=Knöbl|first3=Ralf|year=2015|orig-year=First published 1962|title=Das Aussprachewörterbuch|trans-title=The Pronunciation Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6vWCgAAQBAJ|language=de|edition=7th|location=Berlin|publisher=Dudenverlag|isbn=978-3-411-04067-4|pages=280, 744}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Krech|first1=Eva-Maria|last2=Stock|first2=Eberhard|last3=Hirschfeld|first3=Ursula|last4=Anders|first4=Lutz Christian|title=Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch|trans-title=German Pronunciation Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-1tr_oVkW4C&q=deutsches+ausspracheworterbuch|language=de|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-018202-6|pages=416, 884}}</ref> 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]] and is considered one of the central founders of the science of [[thermodynamics]].<ref>{{Citation | author=Cardwell, D.S.L. | title=From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age | location=London | publisher=Heinemann | year=1971 | isbn=978-0-435-54150-7}}</ref> By his restatement of [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot|Sadi Carnot]]'s principle known as the [[Carnot cycle]], he gave the [[theory of heat]] a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat",<ref name="Theory of Heat"/> published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the [[second law of thermodynamics]]. In 1865 he introduced the concept of [[entropy]]. In 1870 he introduced the [[virial theorem]] which applied to [[heat]].<ref>{{cite journal | last = Clausius | first = RJE | year = 1870 | title = On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat | journal = Philosophical Magazine |series=4th Series | volume = 40 | pages = 122–127}}</ref>
'''Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius''' ({{IPA-de|ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈklaʊ̯zi̯ʊs}};<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dudenredaktion|last2=Kleiner|first2=Stefan|last3=Knöbl|first3=Ralf|year=2015|orig-year=First published 1962|title=Das Aussprachewörterbuch|trans-title=The Pronunciation Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6vWCgAAQBAJ|language=de|edition=7th|location=Berlin|publisher=Dudenverlag|isbn=978-3-411-04067-4|pages=280, 744}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Krech|first1=Eva-Maria|last2=Stock|first2=Eberhard|last3=Hirschfeld|first3=Ursula|last4=Anders|first4=Lutz Christian|title=Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch|trans-title=German Pronunciation Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-1tr_oVkW4C&q=deutsches+ausspracheworterbuch|language=de|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-018202-6|pages=416, 884}}</ref> 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]] and is considered one of the central founders of the science of [[thermodynamics]].<ref>{{Citation | author=Cardwell, D.S.L. | title=From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age | location=London | publisher=Heinemann | year=1971 | isbn=978-0-435-54150-7}}</ref> By his restatement of [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot|Sadi Carnot]]'s principle known as the [[Carnot cycle]], he gave the [[theory of heat]] a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat",<ref name="Theory of Heat"/> published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the [[second law of thermodynamics]]. In 1865 he introduced the concept of [[entropy]] as a ratio of heat to temperature.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wolfram|first=Stephen|title=A New Kind of Science|publisher=Wolfram Media, Inc.|year=2002|page=1019|isbn=1-57955-008-8}}</ref> In 1870 he introduced the [[virial theorem]] which applied to [[heat]].<ref>{{cite journal | last = Clausius | first = RJE | year = 1870 | title = On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat | journal = Philosophical Magazine |series=4th Series | volume = 40 | pages = 122–127}}</ref>


==Life==
==Life==

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"Clausius" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Clausius (crater).
Rudolf Clausius
Clausius-Clapeyron relation
Clausius theorem
Clausius–Duhem inequality
Virial theorem
Disgregation
AwardsCopley Medal (1879)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (German pronunciation:

theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat",[4] published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy as a ratio of heat to temperature.[5] In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem which applied to heat.[6]

Life

Clausius was born in

ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, where he stayed until 1867. During that year, he moved to Würzburg and two years later, in 1869 to Bonn
.

In 1870 Clausius organized an ambulance corps in the Franco-Prussian War. He was wounded in battle, leaving him with a lasting disability. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his services.

His wife, Adelheid Rimpau died in 1875, leaving him to raise their six children. In 1886, he married Sophie Sack, and then had another child. Two years later, on 24 August 1888, he died in Bonn, Germany.[8]

Work

Clausius's PhD thesis concerning the refraction of light proposed that we see a blue sky during the day, and various shades of red at sunrise and sunset (among other phenomena) due to reflection and refraction of light. Later,

Lord Rayleigh
would show that it was in fact due to the scattering of light, but regardless, Clausius used a far more mathematical approach than some have used.

His most famous paper, Ueber die bewegende Kraft der Wärme ("On the Moving Force of Heat and the Laws of Heat which may be Deduced Therefrom")[9] was published in 1850, and dealt with the mechanical theory of heat. In this paper, he showed that there was a contradiction between Carnot's principle and the concept of conservation of energy. Clausius restated the two laws of thermodynamics to overcome this contradiction[10] (the third law was developed by Walther Nernst, during the years 1906–1912). This paper made him famous among scientists.

Clausius' most famous statement of thermodynamics second law was published in German in 1854,[11] and in English in 1856.[12]

Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.

During 1857, Clausius contributed to the field of kinetic theory after refining August Krönig's very simple gas-kinetic model to include translational, rotational and vibrational molecular motions. In this same work he introduced the concept of 'Mean free path' of a particle.[13][14][15]

Clausius deduced the Clausius–Clapeyron relation from thermodynamics. This relation, which is a way of characterizing the phase transition between two states of matter such as solid and liquid, had originally been developed in 1834 by Émile Clapeyron.

Entropy

Main article: History of entropy

In 1865, Clausius gave the first mathematical version of the concept of entropy, and also gave it its name.[8] Clausius chose the word because the meaning (from Greek ἐν en "in" and τροπή tropē "transformation") is "content transformative" or "transformation content" ("Verwandlungsinhalt").[4][16] He used the now abandoned unit 'Clausius' (symbol: Cl) for entropy.[17]

1 Clausius (Cl) = 1
degree Celsius (cal/°C) = 4.1868 joules per kelvin
(J/K)

The landmark 1865 paper in which he introduced the concept of entropy ends with the following summary of the first and second laws of thermodynamics:[4]

The energy of the universe is constant.
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

Tributes

Memorial stone in front of Koszalin University of Technology, with the laws of thermodynamics as formulated by Clausius

Publications

  • Clausius, R. (1867). The Mechanical Theory of Heat – with its Applications to the Steam Engine and to Physical Properties of Bodies. London: John van Voorst. editions:PwR_Sbkwa8IC. English translations of nine papers.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4
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  2. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6
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  3. ISBN 978-0-435-54150-7
  4. ^ a b c Clausius, R. (1867). The Mechanical Theory of Heat – with its Applications to the Steam Engine and to Physical Properties of Bodies. London: John van Voorst. Retrieved 19 June 2012. editions:PwR_Sbkwa8IC. Contains English translations of many of his other works.
  5. ISBN 1-57955-008-8
    .
  6. ^ Clausius, RJE (1870). "On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat". Philosophical Magazine. 4th Series. 40: 122–127.
  7. ^ Emilio Segrè (2012). From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries. Courier Dover Publications. p. 228
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-517324-6
    . Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  9. hdl:2027/uc1.$b242250.. See English Translation: On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws regarding the Nature of Heat itself which are deducible therefrom. Phil. Mag. (1851), series 4, 2, 1–21, 102–119. Also available on Google Books
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  10. ISBN 1-57955-008-8
    .
  11. doi:10.1002/andp.18541691202
    . Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  12. doi:10.1080/14786445608642141
    . Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  13. doi:10.1002/andp.18571760302
  14. doi:10.1002/andp.18621910102
  15. ^ Clausius, R. (1864), Abhandlungen über die Mechanische Wärmetheorie. Electronic manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  16. doi:10.1002/andp.18652010702
  17. S2CID 6658005
    .
  18. ^ "R.J.E. Clausius (1822–1888)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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