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ME2121 – Engineering Thermodynamics

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SOME INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS<br />

Earlier, second law of thermodynamics and<br />

applied it to cycles and cyclic devices. Here, we<br />

apply the second law to processes.<br />

The first law of thermodynamics deals with the<br />

property energy and the conservation of it. The<br />

second law leads to the definition of a new<br />

property called entropy.<br />

Entropy is a somewhat abstract property and it is<br />

difficult to give a physical description of it without<br />

considering the microscopic state of the system.<br />

© Copyright 2005 Prof. Arun S. Mujumdar.<br />

<strong>ME2121</strong> - Entropy I - Introduction (ASM) 10

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