Spontaneous processes Unmanaged processes associated with entropy growth
potential, of opposite category to reversible-like processes (see Reversible-like
process).
Triadic framework Triad of EGP, heat from heat reservoir, and useful form of
energy. General triad of stock EGP, natural EGP, and useful form of energy or
useful heat or useful outcome. The dyadic framework of MTH’s
interconvertibility principle is what tainted the triumph of the mechanical
theory over the caloric theory by misplacing heat in its relational category.
Triadic framework is an innovation of the predicative theory (PETH) that places
heat in its correct categories both ontologically and predicatively.
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