A Novel Approach to the Teaching of Etropy Based on a Recent Single Particle Heat Engine Model
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In a recently developed simple particle mechanics model in which a single particle represents the working fluid (gas) in a heat engine (exemplified by a piston engine) a new approach was outlined for the teaching of concepts to thermodynamic students. By mechanics reasoning a model was developed that demonstrates the connection between the Carnot efficiency limitation of heat engines and the Kelvin-Planck statement of Second Law requiring only the truth of the Clausius statement. In this paper the model is extended to introduce entropy. Here the particle's entropy is defined as a function of its kinetic energy and the space that it occupies that is analogous to that normally found in classical macroscopic analyses.
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2019 ◽
pp. 132-147
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