Description

The First Law of Thermodynamics is a particular statement based on the principles of law of conservation of energy according to which the total amount of energy in any thermodynamic system remains constant i.e. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed”. None of the energy is gained or expended in the sense it is converted from one form to another. Initially the statement of conservation of energy was quantitatively analyzed for thermodynamic systems by J.P. Joule during the period of eighteen forties which has led to the statement of First law of thermodynamics.