Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
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The Path to Irreversibility
In canon cart let's return to a glass of iced tea. Imagine that the glass is somehow perfectly isolated from the rest of the environment, and no energy other than the energy of the stirring can be exchanged with the environment. Only in this scenario that transformation is impossible. This approach to the second law is due to lord kelvin and max plunk. It does not talk about what trajectories are system accesses once you discount some of its de s.
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