Impossible: Physics beyond the Edge

Impossible: Physics beyond the Edge

Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1x5)


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Learn how the 19th-century French engineer Nicolas Carnot showed that only a temperature difference can be used to generate work, and that some waste heat must always be lost - ideas that led to the second law of thermodynamics and the important concept of entropy.

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