Thermodynamics

Carnot cycle is the best known reversible cycle which was first proposed in what year?

The Carnot cycle is composed of how many reversible processes?

The Carnot cycle is composed of ___________ processes

What is a heat engine that operates on the reversible Carnot cycle called?

The second law of thermodynamics discovered the "entropy" on what year?

"A reversible adiabatic process is necessarily isentropic but an isentropic process is not necessarily reversible adiabatic process" This statement is

The term "isentropic process" used in thermodynamic implies what?

What states that the entropy of a pure crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature is zero?

What law provides an absolute reference point for the determination of entropy?

"The entropy change of a system during a process is equal to the net entropy transfer through the system boundary and the entropy generated within the system" This statement is known as

What law states that entropy can be created but it cannot be destroyed?

Entropy is transferred by _________

An adiabatic process in which there is no change in system enthalpy but for which there is a significant decrease in pressure is called _________

A _______ is a flow in which the gas flow is adiabatic and frictionless and entropy change is zero