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| The '''Carnot cycle''' is a hypothetical cycle in which the efficiency is a maximum. It was proposed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot <ref>Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824), printed in [http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASENS_1872_2_1__393_0 Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure Sér. '''2''', 1 pp. 393-457 (1872)]</ref>.
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| The Carnot cycle consists of four distinct operations:
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| #A reversible isothermal expansion of the gas at the "hot" temperature, ''T''<sub>''Hot''</sub>
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| #An isentropic reversible adiabatic expansion of the gas
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| #A reversible isothermal compression of the gas at the "cold" temperature, ''T''<sub>''Cold''</sub>
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| #Finally an isentropic compression of the gas
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| <br>[[Image:Carnot_TS.png|500px]]
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Clausius theorem]]
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| <references/>
| | #Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824), printed in [http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASENS_1872_2_1__393_0 Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure Sér. '''2''', 1 pp. 393-457 (1872)] |
| [[Category: Classical thermodynamics]] | | [[Category: Classical thermodynamics]] |