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Rudolf Clausius, an Uncommon card
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Rudolf Clausius quiz: 3 questions
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Find the missing word
In 1865 he introduced the concept of ______.
Answer
entropy. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. From the Rudolf Clausius article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in ____, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics.
Answer
1850s. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. From the Rudolf Clausius article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis.
- His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics.
- In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy.
Why it is Uncommon
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Rudolf Clausius (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Picture taken by Theo Schafgans (1859–1907), Bonn, heliogravüre by Meisenbach, Riffarth & , Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
