1856 Definition
In 1856, Clausius stated what he called the "second fundamental theorem in the mechanical theory of heat" in the following form:
where N is the "equivalence-value" of all uncompensated transformations involved in a cyclical process. This equivalence-value was a precursory formulation of entropy.
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