In this study, the first and second law thermodynamic analysis of a single-stage absorption refrigeration cycle with water/lithium bromide as working fluid pair is performed. Thermodynamic properties ...

Though a cornerstone of thermodynamics, entropy remains one of the most vexing concepts to teach budding physicists in the classroom. Physics teachers designed a hand-held model to demonstrate the ...

Pity the poor thermodynamics student of the future. As difficult as thermo can be for budding engineers to learn, it is going to get a lot more complicated if a recently published theory is true.

Entropy is surely one of the most intriguing and misunderstood concepts in all of physics. The entropy of the universe must always increase – so says the second law of thermodynamics. It’s a law that ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 108, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1999), pp. 936-945 (10 pages) A thermodynamic methdology of TDC determination in IC engines based on a motoring pressure-time ...

In all of physical law, there’s arguably no principle more sacrosanct than the second law of thermodynamics — the notion that entropy, a measure of disorder, will always stay the same or increase. “If ...