...of energy, the second law asserts that it is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature. Carnot expresses this law as follows : — It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any...

...It is given thus by Professor Maxwell: " it is impossible by the unaided action of natural processes to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature." 744. The principle just noticed is called by some writers the Second Law of Thermodynamics; but this...

...thermodynamics, which declares that " it is impossible by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...except by allowing heat to pass from that body into one of a lower temperature." f Clausius has simplified the expression of this law in a way which suits...

...thermodynamics, which declares that " it is impossible by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...except by allowing heat to pass from that body into one of a lower temperature." f Clausius has simplified the expression of this law in a way which suits...

...allow the fastest molecules to pass through one way and the slowest the other, it might be posible theoretically, without expending any work, to separate...curiosity: but is it not possible that what may be called toe renovation of energy plays an important part in the history of the universe? While philosophers,...

...unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into me433 chanical work, except by allowing heat to pass from that body into another at a lower temperature. This Principle merely expresses the teaching of experience in reference to the connexion between temperature...

...Clerk Maxwell in another form, thus : — It is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature. This Principle merely expresses the teaching of experience in reference to the connexion between temperature...

...of energy, the second law asserts that it is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature. Clausius, who first stated the principle of Carnot in a manner consistent with the true theory of heat,...

...be performed are equal. — Eankine. It is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature. — Clerk Maxwell. It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey...

...Maxwell in the following words : — " It is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical...from that body into another at a lower temperature." Hence, since experience shows that all forms of energy ultimately assume the condition of uniformly...