Abstract: Cannot analyzed an engine operating between two reservoirs. Through a peculiar mode of reasoning, he found the correct optimum shaft work done during a cyclic change of state of the engine. ...

Abstract: For a nonchemical-equilibrium state of an isolated system A that has r constituents with initial amounts n a = {n1a , n2a , [[ellipsis]], nra } , and that is subject to τ chemical reaction ...

Abstract: In earlier publications, heat Q ← is defined as an interaction that is entirely distinguishable from work W → . The energy exchanged Q ← is T Q times the entropy exchanged S ← , where T ...