We compare the reversibility of the Carnot cycle to the irreversibility of the Stirling cycle and find that they may be accounted for by the constancy or increase of transferred heat divided by temperature. We then consider how conservation laws, including the fundamental laws of mechanics, cannot account for the irreversibility of a system.
Thermodynamics 4b - Entropy and the Second Law II
We compare the reversibility of the Carnot cycle to the irreversibility of the Stirling cycle and find that they may be accounted for by the constancy or increase of transferred heat divided by temperature. We then consider how conservation laws, including the fundamental laws of mechanics, cannot account for the irreversibility of a system.
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