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Chapter 5: The Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • three statements of the second law establish the theoretical performance for systems undergoing cycles while interacting with thermal reservoirs

  • power cycle efficiency

  • refrigeration cycle

  • heat pump cycle

  • Key Terms and Concepts

    • Clausius statement - states that it is impossible for any system to operate in such a way that the sole result would be an energy transfer by heat from a cooler to a hotter body

    • thermal reservoir - a special kind of system that always remains at a constant temperature even though energy is added or removed by heat transfer

    • Kelvin-Planck statement - states that it is impossible for any system to operate in a thermodynamic cycle and deliver a net amount of energy by work to its surroundings while receiving energy by heat transfer from a single thermal reservoir

    • entropy statement - it is impossible for any system to operate in a way that entropy is destroyed

    • irreversible process - when the system and all parts of its surroundings cannot be exactly restored to their respective initial states after the process has occurred

    • reversible - if both the system and surroundings can be retured to their initial states

    • irreversibilities

      • heat transfer through a finite temperature difference

      • unrestrained expansion of a gas or liquid to a lower pressure

      • spontaneous chemical reaction

      • spontaneous mixing of matter at different compositions or states

      • friction-sliding friction as well as friction in the flow of fluids

      • electric current flow through a resistance

      • magnetization or polarization with hysteresis

      • inelastic deformation

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Chapter 5: The Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • three statements of the second law establish the theoretical performance for systems undergoing cycles while interacting with thermal reservoirs

  • power cycle efficiency

  • refrigeration cycle

  • heat pump cycle

  • Key Terms and Concepts

    • Clausius statement - states that it is impossible for any system to operate in such a way that the sole result would be an energy transfer by heat from a cooler to a hotter body

    • thermal reservoir - a special kind of system that always remains at a constant temperature even though energy is added or removed by heat transfer

    • Kelvin-Planck statement - states that it is impossible for any system to operate in a thermodynamic cycle and deliver a net amount of energy by work to its surroundings while receiving energy by heat transfer from a single thermal reservoir

    • entropy statement - it is impossible for any system to operate in a way that entropy is destroyed

    • irreversible process - when the system and all parts of its surroundings cannot be exactly restored to their respective initial states after the process has occurred

    • reversible - if both the system and surroundings can be retured to their initial states

    • irreversibilities

      • heat transfer through a finite temperature difference

      • unrestrained expansion of a gas or liquid to a lower pressure

      • spontaneous chemical reaction

      • spontaneous mixing of matter at different compositions or states

      • friction-sliding friction as well as friction in the flow of fluids

      • electric current flow through a resistance

      • magnetization or polarization with hysteresis

      • inelastic deformation