Suppose we have 2 systems of similar degrees of freedom/number of molecules that can interact with one another through exchange of energy only (the energy exchanged is really heat Q). They are isolated from the rest of the world and thus E_{tot} = E_{R}+E_{S} is constant. The total number of...
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I just completed a semester of undergrad course in thermodynamics/stat mech and while I find it somewhat easy to simply dump the right equations in different situation to get the right answer, its the fundamentals that has continued to baffle me. I shall be as concise as I can and...