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[QUOTE="DrClaude, post: 6826838, member: 461323"] There are lots of good textbooks on thermodynamics. Considering your question, I think you would be well served by the pedagogical approach of Schroeder's [I]Thermal Physics[/I], or by an old-school text like Callen's [I]Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics[/I]. Once the basics have been acquired, application to fluids can be found in a textbook such as W. J. Thomson, [I]Introduction to Transport Phenomena[/I]. That should be "exchange energy," not "exchange information." The final temperature will depend on the heat capacity of each system. Time taken to reach equilibrium will depend on heat conductivity and the difference in temperature, see [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_cooling[/URL]. The exact way to model this will depend on the systems. For realistic cases, this requires computer simulations. Correct. For the entire system, it is characterized by energy. But you can still have local equilibrium and talk of the temperature at a given point. This is done all the time in fluid dynamics. This is how you get something like flame temperature profiles: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomy_of_a_candle_flame.svg[/URL] [ATTACH]318005[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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