Here, I’ve tried to put together the simplest possible version of the zeroth law. The main point is that it specifies when two systems have the same temperature, but says nothing about what happens if they have different temperatures…ie which direction heat transfer will occur when they are brought into contact with each other.
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Patrick Andrews has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.
A former Chartered Engineer and Chartered Mathematician, Patrick has worked in management consultancies and high-tech startups, and in academia as a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge and a maths lecturer at De Montfort University.
Patrick is the father of three delightful (but not uniformly mathematical!) daughters.
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