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Thermodynamics

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The first law: a heat engine balances internal energy, heat and work

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The ideal gas provides the simplest system to consider in thermodynamics

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Work done by an ideal gas within isothermal and adiabatic process can becalculated

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The Carnot heat engine is reversible and is therefore the upper bound onefficiency

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Another perspective on entropy: energy irreversibly lost to mechanicalwork

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Any decrease in system entropy must come from a larger increase some-where else

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Practical questions about the most efficient use of global energy is chal-lenging

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Nearly all electricity generated in the US comes ultimately from steamengines

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