Guest Blade Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Is it possible for an engineering process to be fully adiabatic?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 As far as we know, not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blade Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Thanks Gilded however can you (or anyone else) please explain why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I know as much physics as the average squirrel, but I remember it having something to do with the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Gilded was right. The second law, which holds for macroscopic systems, implies that fully adiabatic processes will not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 "Gilded was right. The second law, which holds for macroscopic systems, implies that fully adiabatic processes will not exist." Yeah, exceptions in the microscopic scale. Btw, did Maxwell's demon have something to do with adiabatic processes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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