Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics

This group collects the Physics subcategory's members whose defining work concerns heat, temperature, entropy and the statistical behavior of large numbers of particles: the founders of thermodynamics and the instrument makers who built the thermometers and calorimeters the field depends on. It is kept apart from Condensed Matter Physics, whose members study specific solid and liquid materials rather than the general statistical and thermal framework that applies across every phase of matter, and it remains the subcategory's smallest flat group by the report's own small-and-real-subfield standard.