Physics 212 Lecture: "Heat Engines." Jan 28, 1998

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that Heat flows spontaneously from objects at higher to objects at lower temperatures, and not the reverse.
• A heat engine converts heat to work.
• Steam engines are examples of heat engines, but are very inefficient because they waste most of the input energy in boiling water.

This lecture discusses material in Chapter 15 of Cutnell and Johnson.

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