[chimera]

Formal thermodynamics just adds a bunch of math to those ideas to better define what is meant.

Yeah, but its pretty pedantic and boring. I got very weary of drawing control volumes and figuring out flows across boundaries. I'm a statistical mechanics kind of person myself...

[FreedomPoster]

Yeah, I did a little of that in grad school. As I (dimly) recall, it was pretty neat figuring pressure via the statistical number of particles bouncing off of the container wall.