Talk:Clausius theorem
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[edit] Is the theorem proved in this article?
The article says, "Thus the heat and work in the process a-b and a-c-d-b are the same and any reversible process a-b can be replaced with a combination of isothermal and adiabatic processes, which is the Clausius theorem."
I don't see how the Clausius theorem (which is given formally at the beginning of the article) follows from the conclusion above.
Anyone know?
--Masud 14:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
- Incidentally, I find the proof given here more understandable (than other proofs based on separating a reversible cycle into many Carnot cycles): http://theory.ph.man.ac.uk/~judith/stat_therm/node30.html.
- Anyone up for incorporating that into this article?
- --Masud 14:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
