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... heat . It was Carnot's Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat ( 1824 ) which formed the basis of the Second Law of thermodynamics . Helmholtz demonstrated that both heat ( considered as small- scale motion ) and work ( regarded as ...
... heat . It was Carnot's Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat ( 1824 ) which formed the basis of the Second Law of thermodynamics . Helmholtz demonstrated that both heat ( considered as small- scale motion ) and work ( regarded as ...
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... heat must be transferred from a higher temperature to a lower one in order to do work . Clausius expanded on Carnot's basic work and adopted the term entropy to express the scale of heat lost irretrievably . Angrist ' qualifies : " The ...
... heat must be transferred from a higher temperature to a lower one in order to do work . Clausius expanded on Carnot's basic work and adopted the term entropy to express the scale of heat lost irretrievably . Angrist ' qualifies : " The ...
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... heat in water or other objects at ordinary atmospheric temperature may be utilized to vaporize liquid ammonia under ... heat is rejected in matter leaving the engine . The work done by the engine is due to the difference in bulk of the ...
... heat in water or other objects at ordinary atmospheric temperature may be utilized to vaporize liquid ammonia under ... heat is rejected in matter leaving the engine . The work done by the engine is due to the difference in bulk of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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