Second Law, Entropy, and Maximum Entropy Principles in Advanced Thermodynamics - Lecture 2
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Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Review: Course Objectives: Part I
- The Loaded Meaning of the Word System
- The Loaded Meaning of the Word Property
- What Exactly Do We Mean by the Word State?
- General Laws of Time Evolution
- Time Evolution, Interactions, Process
- Definition of Weight Process
- Main Consequence of the First Law: Energy
- Energy Balance Equation
- States: Steady/Unsteady/Equilibrium/Nonequilibrium
- Equilibrium States: Unstable/Metastable/Stable
- Hatsopoulos-Keenan Statement of the Second Law
- Consequences of First and Second Law together
- Theorem: Kelvin-Planck Statement of the Second Law
- Proof of the Kelvin-Planck Statement
- What Exactly Do We Mean by Reversible Process?
- Second Part of the Statement of the Second Law
- Definition of Adiabatic Availability
- Criterion for Reversibility of a Weight Process
- Mutual Equilibrium and Thermal Reservoir
- Feasibility of Standard Reversible Weight Process
- Definition of Temperature of a Thermal Reservoir
- Definition of Property Entropy
- Available Energy w.r.to a Thermal Reservoir
- Entropy: Engineering Meaning and Additivity
- Entropy Cannot Decrease in a Weight Process
- Criteria for Reversibility of a Weight Process
- Exchangeability of Entropy via Interactions
- Entropy Balance Equation
- Maximum Entropy and Minimum Energy Principles
- State Principle and Fundamental Relation
- Partial Derivatives of the Fundamental Relation
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