Second Law of Thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics as a force law
... The second law of thermodynamics states the increase of entropy, ∆S > 0, for real processes from state A to state B at constant energy from chemistry over biological life and engines to cosmic ...
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Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Effectively Communicating to Non-technicians
... Abstract Given the degree of disbelief in the theory of evolution by the wider public, scientists need to develop a collection of clear explanations and metaphors that demon- strate the working of the theory and the ...
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Analysis of Cogeneration Based Wet Ethanol Operated HCCI Engine Using First and Second Law of Thermodynamics
... and second law of thermodynamics is the best way to analyze these ...and second law efficiencies of the HCCI engine cogeneration ...
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Removing the entropy from the definition of entropy: clarifying the relationship between evolution, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics
... the second law of thermodynamics drives systems to less complexity, less ...the second law drives systems towards less order, evolution (towards more complexity) is ...
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Second Law of Thermodynamics Formalism Applied to Finite Duration through Cycles of Living Dissipative Systems
... The second law of thermodynamics has been used to explain the finite time duration of stationary states and simultaneously, both the processes of intrinsic progressive loss of functionality for ...
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The Continuous Galerkin Finite Element Method Is ot NaturallyC onsistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
... violation of entropy not necessarily will occur at all times. For example, if the time-evolution of nodal temperatures (see Fig. 3a) is computed for subsequent times for the case of the initial condition T shown in Fig. ...
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On the issue that Finite Element discretizations violate, nodally, Clausius’s postulate of the second law of thermodynamics
... Quite similarly to the examples mentioned above, this informative research paper deals with the issue of the compatibility of spatial discretizations with respect to Clausius’s pos- tulate of second law of ...
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Information erasure and the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics
... of thermodynamics and black hole mechanics was noted, as a curiosity without physical implications, in a seminal paper by Bardeen, Carter and Hawking ...ordinary second law of thermodynamics, ...
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A Physical Basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Quantum Nonunitarity
... the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the statement that entropy S can never decrease for closed systems: ≥ ...This law is corroborated ubiquitously at the usual macroscopic level of ...
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"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics
... of thermodynamics. We review here some aspects of thermodynamics that bear on weight loss and the effect of macronutrient ...of thermodynamics are relevant to the systems considered in nutrition and, ...
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Popovia johnrolandi n.sp., a new smaller agglutinated foraminifera from northern Venezuela: a biostratigraphic example of the second law of thermodynamics
... Popovia johnrolandi n.sp. displays a morphological trend through time that provides us with a bio- stratigraphic example of the second law of thermo- dynamics. The taxon displays a clear propensity towards ...
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Energy and Second Law of Thermodynamics Analysis of Shower Cooling Tower with Variation in Inlet Air Temperature
... 58.28%. Second law efficiency at the exit of SCT increases with increase of the inlet air DBT (Figure 8) because exit total exergy of the system relatively increases with increase of the air ...
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Chapter 22 Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
... There are many irreversible processes that cannot be described by the heat-engine or refrigerator statements of the second law, such as a glass falling to the floor and breaking or a balloon popping. ...
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Exergy Analysis of Combined Cycle Power Plant using Second Law of Thermodynamics
... In this study. Currently GT 1 and HRSG#1 are active while GT 2 and HRSG#2 are both inactive, so thermo-physical properties is available only for GT1 and HRSG#1. Energy analysis of an active CCPP (Combined Cycle Power ...
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Sociological and Economic Inequality and the Second Law
... For this reason, Casinos and lottery use it. Nevertheless, in nature, fairness does not mean equal probability to all the boxes N, but equal probability to all the microstates (configurations). The equal probability of ...
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The Thermodynamics of Time Travel
... does thermodynamics suggest for the potential of time travel? Examination of the thermodynamic state functions of enthalpy and entropy from the Gibbs free energy relationship suggest that the final enthalpy after ...
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A Study of Thermodynamics Learning
... There is a general agreement among science teachers on the importance of choosing the teaching of energy as a focus of interest in the science curriculum, since this is a central idea which provides an important key to ...
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FIRST LAW AND SECOND LAW ANALYSIS OF EXTRACTION CONDENSING STEAM TURBINE IN SUGAR INDUSTRY
... and second laws of thermodynamics, using such concepts as exergy, entropy generation and irreversibility in order to evaluate the efficiency with which the available energy is ...
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Non-CFC refrigerants ; first and second law efficiencies
... Wen-Lu Weng and Bin-Chang Huang (1995) used the Iwai-Margerum-Lu equation of state in their study of the thermodynamics performances of a variety of fluid circulating in an ideal heat pump cycle. Their evaluations ...
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The First Law of Thermodynamics in Vector Form and Convective Heat Transfer
... first law of thermodynamics for closed systems (the energy supplied to the system in the form of heat is spent on the change in the internal energy of the system , and doing the work ) needs to be adjusted ...
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