Classical thermodynamics

"...all the signs suggest that the main principles of thermodynamics from the classical theory will not only rule unchallenged but will more probably become correspondingly extended."

Max Planck "The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory" Nobel Lecture, June 2, 1920

B

• Boyle's law
• Boyle temperature

C

• Capillary waves
• Carnot cycle
• Charles's law
• Chemical potential
• Clausius-Clapeyron relation
• Clausius theorem
• Compressibility
• Compressibility factor
• Critical points

D

• Dalton's law

E

• Energy equation
• Enthalpy
• Extensive properties

F

• First law of thermodynamics

G

• Gay-Lussac's law
• Gibbs-Duhem relation
• Gibbs-Helmholtz equations
• Gibbs energy function

H

• Heat
• Heat capacity
• Helmholtz energy function
• Henry's law

I

• Intensive properties
• Internal energy

J

• Joule-Thomson effect

L

• Law of corresponding states

M

• Maxwell's relations

P

• Pressure

R

• Raoult's law

S

• Second law of thermodynamics
• Stirling cycle

T

• Temperature
• Thermal expansion coefficient
• Thermodynamic integration
• Thermodynamic potential
• Thermodynamic relations
• Triple point

W

• Work

Z

• Zeroth law of thermodynamics