Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire: And Other Papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Brossura

Carnot, Sadi; Clapeyron, E.; Clausius, R.

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ISBN 10: 0486446417 ISBN 13: 9780486446417

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire," along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, consisting mostly of statements couched in exact language. It represents a tribute to Carnot's capacity to generalize, and to see fundamental processes at work in complex mechanisms.
"Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" examines the relation between heat and the work done by heat in high- and low-pressure steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Carnot established conditions for the economical working of these engines and invented the closed cycle of operations. He realized that in any engine, the amount of work done by heat is determined solely by the range of temperature through which it fell in the operation. He extended the ideas of his father, Lazare Carnot, on mechanics to thermal processes, deriving statements on the impossibility of perpetual motion and the need to avoid irreversible changes.
Little notice was paid to this book upon its 1824 publication; ten years later, Emile Clapeyron's more analytical paper on the same subject received wider attention. This English translation includes selections from Carnot's posthumous manuscripts and a paper by Rudolf Clausius that rewrote Carnot's results in a terminology that distinguished between change of entropy and quantity of heat.

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Introduction Reflections on the Motive of Fire, and on Machines Fitted to Develop That Power by Sadi Carnot, translated and edited by R. H. Thurston Appendix: Selections from Posthumous Manuscripts of Carnot, translated by R. H. Thurston and E. Mendoza Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat by É. Clapeyron, translated and edited by E. Mendoza On the Motive Power of Heat, and on the Laws Which Can Be Deduced from it for the Theory of Heat by R. Clausius, translated by W. F. Magie

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The title essay, along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0486446417
• ISBN 13: 9780486446417
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 152