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Heat was a latecomer to this game.  The field of [[Thermodynamics]], developed during the 19th century by such people as Carnot, Gibbs, Clausius, Clapeyron, Maxwell, Helmholtz, and Thompson (Lord Kelvin), established that, among other things, heat was a type of kinetic energy.  The First Law of Thermodynamics is simply a statement of that fact.  Because the connection between heat and more conventional forms of kinetic energy involves esoteric issues of statistical mechanics, thermodynamics is actually a rather advanced subject.  The Second and Third laws of thermodynamics deal with these issues.

Heat was a latecomer to this game.  The field of [[Thermodynamics]], developed during the 19th century by such people as Carnot, Gibbs, Clausius, Clapeyron, Maxwell, Helmholtz, and Thompson (Lord Kelvin), established that, among other things, heat was a type of kinetic energy.  The First Law of Thermodynamics is simply a statement of that fact.  Because the connection between heat and more conventional forms of kinetic energy involves esoteric issues of statistical mechanics, thermodynamics is actually a rather advanced subject.  The Second and Third laws of thermodynamics deal with these issues.

[[Category:Physics]]

[[Category:Laws of Physics]]