February 2005
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3.1 Second Law of Thermodynamics
3.2 Second Law of Thermodynamics–Corollaries
The first law of thermodynamics helps in finding out change in energy of a system for a given amount of heat and work exchange in a process. However, it fails to answer questions like why heat flows from high temperature to low temperature, why work cannot be produced by a system undergoing a cycle change if it exchanges heat with a single thermal reservoir, why an apple falls to the ground after leaving the branch of a tree, or why water flows from high altitude to low altitude and so on. That is, energy analysis cannot answer ...
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