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Heat & Thermodynamics

The laws of energy and disorder: temperature and heat, the four laws, heat engines and the Carnot limit, entropy as counting microstates, refrigerators and heat pumps, and why the second law gives time its arrow.

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Prereqs: Energy & work. Next: Electricity & magnetism; Chemistry: energy in reactions. Sources: Feynman *Lectures* Vol. I ch. 44; Atkins, *The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction*; Sadi Carnot (1824).
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