June, 2009

Principle of ‘thermodynamics’

Posted On June 24, 2009Uncategorized0 Comments

solar French physicist Nicolas Carnot proposed the ‘second law’ of thermodynamics inĀ around 1840. The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. In a simple manner, the second law states “energy systems have a tendency to increase their entropy rather than decrease it.”... Read More