Entropy and Second Law

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Explores the Carnot cycle, ideal gas processes, and thermal equilibria.

Covers atomic structure, thermodynamics, material properties, and ideal gas law.

Provides an overview of calorimetry and the thermodynamic properties of ideal gases, including their state equations and heat capacities.

Discusses the Carnot cycle, thermodynamic temperature, and the efficiency of thermal machines, including real and ideal models.

Discusses adiabatic transformations, cyclic processes, and the efficiency of thermodynamic cycles in ideal gases.

Reviews heat transfer mechanisms, entropy, and thermodynamic potentials in relation to equilibrium and Carnot cycles.

Covers entropy, Carnot cycle optimality, and free energy minimization in spontaneous processes.

Covers chemical potential variations and thermodynamic functions in mixtures, emphasizing their implications in real and ideal gases.

Explores exergy, entropy, and thermodynamic efficiencies in closed and open systems.

Covers the Stirling cycle, proposed by R. Stirling in 1816, involving two isotherms and two isochores, and its practical realization.