Entropy Change in the Carnot Cycle: Entropy in the Adiabatic Process

2012/06/24 by Kazumi Suematsu, Suematsu, Kazumi
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #math-ph #math.MP #physics.class-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1206.5455

3 pages, 1 figure

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Abstract

Entropy change in the Carnot cycle is discussed. In particular, the isentropic change in the adiabatic expansion (or compression) is reinvestigated.

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