Sorting out the science

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Basic ideas of thermodynamics which must underpin teaching approaches if they are to make any kind of sense.

• What is energy?
• Where did the idea of energy come from?
• What are the laws of thermodynamics?
• Why is energy conserved?
• What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
• What is entropy?
• What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
• If everything tends to sameness, how can anything be created?
• Does the Second Law apply to living things?