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The birth of thermodynamics in the early twentieth century XIX e century, as an experimental science, was rapidly followed by its theoretical development as a phenomenological science. At the end of the XIX n the century, all the laws of thermodynamics had been developed; and with the XX n the century, the theoretical development of quantum mechanics (QM) began, with the rapprochement of thermodynamics leading to Planck's law, and the birth of quantum theory. Following Planck's ideas on black-body radiation, Einstein in 1905 proposed the quantization of the electromagnetic field
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Center for Energy Systemp Research, Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Tec http://www.me.vt.edu/CESR
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