Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
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The Third Path to Irreversibility
The laws of physics tell you what actually happens. I don't tll you what probably happens. This is one of the reasons why, one of the motivations for this entire constructad theoretic view of the second law. After trying two paths that do not work, we land on the third path to irreversibility, based on counter factls. To set off down this path, let us trace the same conceptual steps that led the superb physicist james jewell to perform a crucial experiment in the early days of thermo dynamics.
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