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Are Carnot engine efficieny and Fourier heat trasmission law related?
It just occured to me that the efficiency of Carnot cycles is $\eta= \frac{T_1 - T_2}{T_1}$, that is, the efficiency decreases as the difference between reservoir temperatures decreases. On the other ...
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How equivalent are heat energy and work energy in connection with a spinning flywheel?
Let's say we have two identical spinning flywheels, that have arbitrary geometry, and are made of copper.
Now we apply some heat energy at the center point of flywheel A, causing it to slow down a ...
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Exam review question on thermodynamics [closed]
A cube has a side length of $20\text{ cm}$.
An atom in the gas moves around the cube as shown.
It continually bounces off the four lateral walls of the cube.
The atom has a mass of $6.6\times ...
