Lecture 2: Second Law and Entropy; Adiabatic Availability; Maximum Entropy Principle

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Prof. Gian Paolo Beretta

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Mechanical Engineering

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Spring 2024

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Graduate

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Reversible process. Statement of the Second Law. Adiabatic availability. Mutual equilibrium. Temperature of a thermal reservoir. Definition of entropy. Entropy balance. Available energy. Maximum entropy principle. Fundamental stable equilibrium relation.