Congratulations to z, who posted the 10,000th comment here:
Says here, change in total (internal) energy U is defined in terms of temperature T, pressure P, volume V and entropy S as
dU=TdS-PdV
or T=(dU+PdV)/dS ...
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z didn't misrepresent the formula, we're all dangerous and unpatriotic in our mischaracterizations of z!
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