Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences / Термодинамика в науках о Земле и планетах

Thermodynamics has played a major role in improving our understanding of natural processes and would continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In fact, a course in thermodynamics has now become a part of Geosciences curriculum in many Institutions despite the fact that a formal thermodynamics course is taught in every other department of physical sciences, and also in departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials Sciences, and Biological Sciences. The reason thermodynamics is taught in a variety of departments, probably more so than any other subject, is that its principles have wide ranging applications but the teaching of thermodynamics also needs special focus depending on the problems in a particular field. <...>