Re: ENTROPY: SUPREME LAW OF NATURE OR SCIENCE-KILLER?

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:00

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Clausius deduced his famous "Entropy always increases" from two
premises:

1. Any irreversible process can be closed by a reversible process to
become a cycle.

2. Closed integral of dQ/T is negative or zero for any cycle (Q is the
heat absorbed, T is the temperature).

The falsehood of the first premise is almost obvious. I am not able to
prove RIGOROUSLY the falsehood of the second, but its truth is not
proved either (Clausius' proof is invalid). The problem with the
second premise is mentioned here:

http://www.chem.umd.edu/~devoe/thermo/3steps.pdf

Unfortunately the analysis is too technical to be discussed via
email.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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