Chapter 6: The Second Law of Thermodynamics

The following sections are included:

• Cycle efficiency

• The second law of thermodynamics (Planck statement)

• Corollary of the second law (Clausius statement)

• Reversible and irreversible processes

• Other corollaries of the second law

• The Carnot cycle

• Processes in T − s diagrams

• General thermodynamic relations

• The second law of thermodynamics — problems