Thermodynamics used in a sentence

Thermodynamics in a sentence as a noun

What part of the laws of thermodynamics imply calories in -> calories out?

They may be a huge, well-known multinational, but the laws of thermodynamics apply to them too.

""Well, I mean I suppose that's true in the strictest sense, but is there a reason we can come up with tha--""What, you don't believe in thermodynamics?

It'd be like spending the afternoon with engineers and saying "I didn't hear any of them mention any of the laws of thermodynamics!

I, too, would be incredulous of any positive result, but it's not claiming to violate thermodynamics.

When I taught Intro Chemistry at university, I had a fun bonus project for the students when we got to the unit on thermodynamics.

But a lot of people seem to be able to do it with no effort...The reason why this is not true is simple: our organism is not a closed system, so this thermodynamics truism does not apply.

We know for a fact that the pathway for sugars is thermodynamically more efficient than proteins [1] - the laws of thermodynamics directly contradict "a calorie is a calorie"!

Soon enough, you become the sort of person who can start with pretty much any claim, no matter how superficially absurd, and then bend sources, and arguments, and logic, and everything shy of thermodynamics, to prove it out.

"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

I'm not expecting a QM explanation of what's going on, at this stage the researchers may not even be totally clear, but we know the efficiency is going to be bounded by thermodynamics, and in particular "generating electricity from waste heat!

"They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe"- Leonard Susskind