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The tale of two cultures

  • art schools have shakespear
    • engineers have the laws of thermodynamics

Limitations of the newtonian model

  • Newtonian discribed everything that we can see

    • BUT WHAT WE CANT SEE DOESNT GET EXPLAINED:??!

The laws of thermodynamics

  • Zeroth law:

    • The transitive property exists

      • If a is thermal equibibrium with b
        • and if b is in thermal equibilium with c
          • therefor a is equal to c
  • first law

    • Energy/heat can transfer

      • for any system the total work going in or out equals the total heat going in or out
  • second law

    • The entropy of a closed system can only increaseN

      • energy wants to spread out
    • Carnot effienccy

  • third law

    • As the temperature approaches absolute zero

      • the entropy of a system in equilibrium goes to zero.

developments in thermodynamics

  • stirling

  • sadi carnot, 1796-1832

    • french engineer
      • describs how heat=work can be done at low to high pressures
  • Rudolf Clausius, 1822-1888

    • physicist and mathemetician
    • formalized carnots results
  • Energy

    • Watt = 1 joule/second

    • One kilowatt-hour is 3.6MJ

      • more ways to break down = more energy stored
    • Available energy (Exergy)

      • the available energy of an energy source is the amount that can be converted to mechancial work
        • W<Q_{H}(T_{H}-T_{c})$$/T_{H}
      • Entropy is times errow
        • you cant reincrease entropy
        • it is irreversablet
  • Entropy