Second law of thermodynamics

Quality:

Second law of thermodynamics - law of physics stating that systems spontaneously evolve towards states of higher entropy. Article "Second law of thermodynamics" in English Wikipedia has 87.6 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 113 references and 44 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9308^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6004^th most popular in all topics.

The 8959^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9643^rd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In October 2023 the article "Second law of thermodynamics" was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (9643^rd place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Second law of thermodynamics", its content was written by 629 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2523 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8959^th place).

The article is cited 535 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3971 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2085 in July 2003
• Global: #1389 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #990 in February 2014
• Global: #1779 in February 2014

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Second law of thermodynamics		87.5626
2	Chinese (zh) 热力学第二定律		71.7871
3	Malay (ms) Hukum termodinamik kedua		66.7375
4	Portuguese (pt) Segunda lei da termodinâmica		53.603
5	Ukrainian (uk) Другий закон термодинаміки		53.2889
6	Russian (ru) Второе начало термодинамики		51.6015
7	Catalan (ca) Segon principi de la termodinàmica		49.0999
8	Turkish (tr) Termodinamiğin ikinci yasası		47.3472
9	Hebrew (he) החוק השני של התרמודינמיקה		42.2822
10	Polish (pl) Druga zasada termodynamiki		38.72

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Second law of thermodynamics		13 141 925
2	Spanish (es) Segundo principio de la termodinámica		4 033 557
3	Russian (ru) Второе начало термодинамики		2 636 451
4	Italian (it) Secondo principio della termodinamica		2 040 861
5	Portuguese (pt) Segunda lei da termodinâmica		1 452 271
6	Japanese (ja) 熱力学第二法則		1 416 864
7	French (fr) Deuxième principe de la thermodynamique		1 319 814
8	Polish (pl) Druga zasada termodynamiki		1 198 651
9	Chinese (zh) 热力学第二定律		1 094 217
10	German (de) Zweiter Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik		920 196

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Second law of thermodynamics		51 905
2	Russian (ru) Второе начало термодинамики		11 015
3	Spanish (es) Segundo principio de la termodinámica		10 265
4	Chinese (zh) 热力学第二定律		9 680
5	French (fr) Deuxième principe de la thermodynamique		6 902
6	Italian (it) Secondo principio della termodinamica		6 459
7	German (de) Zweiter Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik		6 250
8	Japanese (ja) 熱力学第二法則		5 887
9	Korean (ko) 열역학 제2법칙		5 077
10	Portuguese (pt) Segunda lei da termodinâmica		3 250

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Second law of thermodynamics		629
2	German (de) Zweiter Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik		428
3	French (fr) Deuxième principe de la thermodynamique		141
4	Italian (it) Secondo principio della termodinamica		123
5	Russian (ru) Второе начало термодинамики		108
6	Spanish (es) Segundo principio de la termodinámica		92
7	Polish (pl) Druga zasada termodynamiki		83
8	Dutch (nl) Tweede wet van de thermodynamica		65
9	Portuguese (pt) Segunda lei da termodinâmica		55
10	Hebrew (he) החוק השני של התרמודינמיקה		52

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Second law of thermodynamics		10
2	Serbian (sr) Други принцип термодинамике		2
3	Hebrew (he) החוק השני של התרמודינמיקה		1
4	Russian (ru) Второе начало термодинамики		1
5	Simple English (simple) Second law of thermodynamics		1
6	Turkish (tr) Termodinamiğin ikinci yasası		1
7	Urdu (ur) حرحرکیات کا دوسرا قانون		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Định luật thứ hai của nhiệt động lực học		1
9	Arabic (ar) القانون الثاني للديناميكا الحرارية		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Termodinamikanın ikinci qanunu		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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