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The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot’s Engine

The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot’s Engine: Why does a dropped egg that spatters on the floor not rise back to your hands even though no laws prohibit it? The answer to such irreversibility resides in the Second Law of Thermodynamics which is explained in this and the next lecture. The Carnot heat engine is discussed in detail to show how there is an upper limit to the efficiency of heat engines and how the concept of entropy arises from macroscopic considerations.

Related Topics

  1. The Boltzmann Constant and First Law of Thermodynamics
  2. Efficiency of a Carnot Engine
  3. Thermodynamics
  4. Carnot Cycle & Carnot Engine
  5. Efficiency of a Carnot Engine – 3: Proving That it is the Most Efficient
  6. Efficiency of a Carnot Engine – 2: Reversing the Cycle
  7. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (cont.) and Entropy
  8. Thermodynamics – Part 4
  9. Thermodynamics – Part 2
  10. Thermodynamics – Part 3