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  • @francescop.salamone6100
    @francescop.salamone610011 жыл бұрын

    I did this yesterday,i couldn't heed,and i wasted two hours of my life. Now i just got everything cleared in just a quarter in a foreign language. Yes you Khan ;)

  • @Nomoreidsleft
    @Nomoreidsleft14 жыл бұрын

    You need to do a series on Quantum Thermodynamics. Classical Thermodynamics is like Classical Mechanics is to Quantum Mechanics. It's a mile-high view of something which is really working at the quantum level.

  • @KhetNiu
    @KhetNiu13 жыл бұрын

    This would have helped me a TON when I was studying thermodynamics in college. I'll be sharing this as much as I can.

  • @udith

    @udith

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now you need not share

  • @rushilpatel7418
    @rushilpatel74183 жыл бұрын

    The fact that I'm a 10th grader and can easily comprehend this just shows how great Sal is

  • @hashmi3768
    @hashmi37684 жыл бұрын

    Entropy is everywhere even in our daily life. Just we don't realise it. For example, there are two libraries A and B. Both these libraries contains exactly same number of books. All the titles available in the library A is available in the library B as well. Imagine that the library A is well stacked and the library B is just a huge pile of books and all the books are just dumped. As per the first law of thermodynamics both these libraries are equal, (energy is conserved). But anyone who wants to take a book and do some reading will prefer library A only, which is well stacked and ordered ( Less entropy). Library A has less entropy and more order. While B has higher entropy and less order. We need to spend energy to bring it to the order. So basically entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness. Higher the disorder higher the entropy. We cannot measure/calculate entropy for all the process or in other words its very difficult to measure the entropy for some processes. There are equations for some standard engineering and chemical process to calculate entropy. If entropy associated with a process is very high,the process tend to have a low efficiency. Ref: Thermodynamics : An engineering approach. Y A Cengel (copied)

  • @swadhin1786
    @swadhin17862 жыл бұрын

    Sir namaste 🙏l am an Indian student. Before watching your videos my views on thermodynamics was so difficult subject but now it has been so easy for me. Thank you sir 😊

  • @SilencerBlood
    @SilencerBlood14 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Alot. It helped alot.

  • @elangz9201
    @elangz92016 жыл бұрын

    This clarified lot of thangss thankss

  • @bibo170
    @bibo17010 жыл бұрын

    I really hate thermodynamics.

  • @harishthethird

    @harishthethird

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol issok

  • @DonatoColangelo
    @DonatoColangelo3 жыл бұрын

    This is pure gold, Sir.

  • @mono7891
    @mono789114 жыл бұрын

    thank you. It helped

  • @10elozano
    @10elozano12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your video. Very clear explanation.

  • @JustOneGirl123
    @JustOneGirl12312 жыл бұрын

    these videos are really excellent, I only wish that they had numbers on them!!

  • @socratus1
    @socratus113 жыл бұрын

    Henry Poincare named the conception of "entropy " as a " surprising abstract " Lev Landau wrote: " A question about the physical basis of the entropy monotonous increasing law remains open " One physicist said : " The entropy is only a shadow of energy“ # History: Clausius : dS= dQ /T. Boltzmann : S= k log W Planck : h*f = kT logW The formula of Entropy is : h*f = kT logW Israel Sadovnik Socratus

  • @ricknitro6011
    @ricknitro601114 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot for clarifying the reversible process! My physics textbook sucks! It needs more examples.

  • @bhagyashreekorake1096
    @bhagyashreekorake10962 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @chemdah
    @chemdah13 жыл бұрын

    When Khan teaches he actual tries to bring some intuitive sense to the subject. I think this is the key to his genius.

  • @azyle2104

    @azyle2104

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indeed

  • @gooddeedsleadto7499
    @gooddeedsleadto74997 жыл бұрын

    Why do we even consider irreversibility to begin with, given entropy it is a state function & entropy for reversible as well as an irreversible cycle is the difference between the end points? Thanks

  • @gooddeedsleadto7499
    @gooddeedsleadto74997 жыл бұрын

    Does it mean change in entropy for an irreversible cycle is always equal to change in entropy due to internally irreversibility or friction in this case?

  • @fuckthishandlesystem
    @fuckthishandlesystem4 жыл бұрын

    "I didn't have no idea what that was" he sounded so confused I laughed a lot for some reason

  • @MRmolde
    @MRmolde11 жыл бұрын

    Will the heat added from the friction not cause a temperature difference? Hence, the system will follow a different isotherm. How can the total entropy generation be calculated in a system with not-neglible resistance?

  • @gooddeedsleadto7499
    @gooddeedsleadto74997 жыл бұрын

    Cyclical integral dQ/T must always be greater than zero for an irreversible cycle because the total entropy is always increasing. Then, why the Clausius integral for an irreversible cycle is less than zero for an irreversible Cycle. Is it not kind of a contradiction? Could you please clarify?Thanks

  • @aeroscience9834
    @aeroscience98348 жыл бұрын

    If you consider the Q in deltaS=Q/T to be the net heat ( Qsuba +Qsubf for expansion, -QsubR +Qsubf for contraction) then deltaS does equal zero, so what's the problem?

  • @igotmail56
    @igotmail565 жыл бұрын

    I have the biggest smile when It all clicked... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes thank you thats why delta S gen is always positive. for a real process and its = 0 when Ideal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @SuperFuckinAwesome
    @SuperFuckinAwesome11 жыл бұрын

    This is completely irrelevant but I was looking for information on entropy information theory and ended up here, and I just couldn't leave and I'm not sure if it was cause I was taking it what you were saying even though I havn't looked up much on previous related material, or if (most likely) it was your voice which seems to have me in some kind of calm/focus trance.

  • @nikan4now
    @nikan4now11 жыл бұрын

    wondeful..perhaps the friction-generated heat is different when expanding and contracting?

  • @23youwatch
    @23youwatch12 жыл бұрын

    my fav uncle!

  • @masol3726
    @masol37264 жыл бұрын

    i wanna learn about constant volume

  • @ShikharGoswami
    @ShikharGoswami6 жыл бұрын

    Net heat added is -2qf and therefore delta s is negative

  • @sokasbogo6912
    @sokasbogo69123 жыл бұрын

    2nd law of thermodynamics reaches when total equilibrium be reached. So energy of each space cube is equal to cubes in whole universe and dark energy is also spent out then universe might reach a temperature in which force of gravitational field is dominant. I think i am wrong.

  • @bhaveshbisht9763
    @bhaveshbisht97637 жыл бұрын

    how u take temperature ( T ) because their is heat difference due to temperature difference , then why you take temperature as ( T ) ???? please reply ....

  • @LehelKovach
    @LehelKovach13 жыл бұрын

    i meant within the the water molecules that form the ice.

  • @ferencsterkens9407
    @ferencsterkens94073 жыл бұрын

    wouldnt it be minus friction then? as it is basically heat generated by the system?

  • @joao_ssouza

    @joao_ssouza

    3 жыл бұрын

    you're correct, heat released by the system is always negative

  • @bharatvidhata9338
    @bharatvidhata93389 жыл бұрын

    how the work w in compression and expension will in irreversible ,,,,,,???

  • @jessstuart7495
    @jessstuart74957 жыл бұрын

    Friction has essentially three parts. The work or mechanical loss it creates, the heat produced that escapes the system, and the heat produced that stays in the system. You really should add a term for the work the friction force does to account for the mechanical energy loss instead of just rolling it into W in the equations. This makes me question how well you really understand thermodynamics.

  • @ivankauf
    @ivankauf6 жыл бұрын

    The heat generated by friction is NOT add to the system as energy, it is lost. So the internal energy lose its energy by the heat generated by friction.

  • @ivankauf

    @ivankauf

    6 жыл бұрын

    At the end you have: Qa - Qr = 2Qf (considering Qf the heat lost by friction)

  • @joao_ssouza

    @joao_ssouza

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ivankauf yes, Qa - Qr = 2Qf --> Qa = 2Qf + Qr, ie, the heat added is equal to the heat released plus all the heat lost to friction (which happens in two parts, one when going and another when going back).

  • @yahyanael
    @yahyanael11 жыл бұрын

    Who are You man??? You teach physics, math, engineering materials, Madicine and history!!!! come on.... I think You are creative and unique and You must get an Oscar for all that videos and explaination and I think that i must kill my self soon cause i cant even understand my classes.... shittttt :( i just wont to say that You are a realley lead by example

  • @idster7
    @idster714 жыл бұрын

    why is it that friction added only heat to the system and didn't add heat to that which the system was rubbing against to cause friction?

  • @Ultrasound700
    @Ultrasound70012 жыл бұрын

    my brain started hurting by 1:41

  • @pascuionut8655
    @pascuionut86557 жыл бұрын

    So if Q from friction remains, i get that it's not reversible, but since Q is energy, why is it bad since there is some extra energy. Is it because it's a parasite energy that's being taken away since it's friction, and friction is not good in an engine?

  • @foss466

    @foss466

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pascu Ionut alright, let's consider a perfectly efficient system that is reversible. In that system, the work or energy you put in is able to be removed exactly equally. So if we had a frictionless piston and we pushed it with n force, we would get exactly n force back. However, in reality we don't have frictionless pistons. So in order for us to reverse the reaction, some heat is generated. Staying consistent with my previous analogy, if we were to push the piston with n force, in order to get it back, we would have to exert n+m force (where m is the extra force caused by friction that must be added in order to return the position to its initial state). So in terms of an engine, friction prevents us from getting back exactly the amount of energy we put in. I hope this helped somewhat.

  • @pascuionut8655

    @pascuionut8655

    7 жыл бұрын

    KSI Foss what i ment was in the first equation, dUe = Qa - W + Qf , looks like the thermal energy from friction kind of works in our favor, and i know friction is not really wanted in engines. I just want to know if it.s true, as it seems from the plus sign, that the thermal energy from friction works in our favor...in theory at least, because it adds to more energy overall. is this correct or not? If i think about it, thermal energy from the friction between piston and cilinder is just the mechanical energy transformed into heat, but then again. if i look at the equation, the friction heat energy comes from nowhere, so it would be beneficial.

  • @foss466

    @foss466

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pascu Ionut The best way to think about it in this case is that the energy in total is the energy required to do the reverse work on the system. Lets say then that we don't have any friction and a perfect system. that means that the forward reaction (Qa-W) plus the reverse reaction (-Qa+W) is equal to zero. Meaning that when we compress and release our hypothetical piston no energy is lost and it rebounds exactly to where it was. Now when we apply friction to the reverse reaction, instead of getting the sums of the two to equal zero, well get a slightly positive value for dUe, meaning that extra work is needed to reverse the reaction. This might help illustrate what i mean; Here's our equation with the friction added; dUe(forward)=Qa-W+F, and dUe(reverse)= -Qa+W+F. You see how the reverse reaction isn't the opposite as the forward when we add the friction in. Instead of the positive value of friction tuning negative in the reverse reaction, it stays positive! This means that over all it will take more work to reverse the reaction since the friction values don't cancel out. So in our engine, it requires more work to move the piston than what is theoretically possible. So the less friction we can muster, the more efficient the engine.

  • @losdodgerz
    @losdodgerz13 жыл бұрын

    thermodynamics is cool

  • @icanshoot06
    @icanshoot0613 жыл бұрын

    @Winxin864 if you say so.

  • @adas1023
    @adas102313 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know what his input method is for all his videos, it doesnt seem like a mouse...

  • @Mech.Masters
    @Mech.Masters10 жыл бұрын

    We know that more entropy means less useful work.........Can someone give me an example where the entropy increases and thus the work decreases?

  • @shilpamanmohan8751

    @shilpamanmohan8751

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Mech E It's better to say that entropy is a measure of inaccessible energy (or not-done-work), rather than "entropy is unaccessible energy", since it is measured in different units, and it is decidedly not an energy.

  • @waqasaps
    @waqasaps12 жыл бұрын

    is there any practical process where entropy is constant

  • @user-bz7gg6dw9o

    @user-bz7gg6dw9o

    3 жыл бұрын

    It can not be constant, it always increase. we just assume it does not increase in order to compare between actual process and ideal process

  • @waqasaps

    @waqasaps

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-bz7gg6dw9o i waited 8 years for this.

  • @user-bz7gg6dw9o

    @user-bz7gg6dw9o

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@waqasaps hhhhhhhhhhh wow you are still alive man. I hope you are a great engineer now (:

  • @waqasaps

    @waqasaps

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahah. yes i am 😊💯

  • @MusicalRaichu
    @MusicalRaichu6 жыл бұрын

    I don't see how you're "clarifying the ... definition of entropy" because you've only explained that the *change* in entropy depends on the energy added. That doesn't explain what entropy actually is.

  • @Freakingeediot
    @Freakingeediot12 жыл бұрын

    no cultural tolerance ftw?

  • @LehelKovach
    @LehelKovach13 жыл бұрын

    @Chuichupachichi Sorry, dude. You are misinterpreting the laws of thermodynamics here. There is always an overall increase in entropy over the universe, but in subunits of space, there can be a decrease in entropy, such as the transfer of heat from a hot environment to the ultimately cold universe. When ice forms, there is a decrease of entropy within the ice. Therefore, much of what occurs on Earth has decrease in entropy when it cools, transferring the heat to the rest of the universe.

  • @manpreetsingh7071
    @manpreetsingh70718 жыл бұрын

    why he didnt consider q2 as negative

  • @bhaveshbisht9763

    @bhaveshbisht9763

    7 жыл бұрын

    because it's a loss heat

  • @Ultrasound700
    @Ultrasound70012 жыл бұрын

    This is why I choose to have dumb friends. It makes me think I'm intelligent.

  • @allaamrauf8214

    @allaamrauf8214

    5 жыл бұрын

    That makes you look even dumber in reality.

  • @GaudioWind
    @GaudioWind9 жыл бұрын

    I don’t get something in the Carnot cycle. 1. Q1 and Q2 are transferred between two systems in the same temperature (the exterior and the gas), therefore there is no change in the entropy of the universe during these two processes, right? 2. In the remaining two processes of the Carnot cycle, there is no heat transfer, thus no change in the overall entropy again, right? So in the whole Carnot cycle, there seems to be no variation in the universe entropy, right? 3. How can there be no entropy variation if at the end, looking at the whole cycle, we have heat (Q1-Q2) going from a hotter source to a colder sink?

  • @nikan4now

    @nikan4now

    9 жыл бұрын

    Gaudio Wind Remember that Q1 and Q2 are added and removed at different temperatures. Furthermore Q1/T1+Q2/T2=0 as the cycle goes back to the same point therefore net entropy change of the system is zero...Yes the entropy of universe is constant as there is no mechanism for entropy generation (all reversibilities are absent and no Q/T net is added)

  • @GaudioWind

    @GaudioWind

    9 жыл бұрын

    Nikan RT Thanks a lot Nikan. It helped. Let me see if I got it straight. Let's suppose the hot source and cool sink are limited. Then after some time, that is, a limited number of cycles, T1 would decrease while T2 would increase and eventually would be the same, T1=T2, and the engine would have to stop, after all. I believe that at this moment, the overall entropy amount in the heat source and the sink would be higher then it was at the beginning of the process, right? Correct me if I am wrong. I believe that because I understand that when two bodies exchange heat to reach thermal equilibrium they have the overall entropy increased, right? And that would apparently be the same final state of the system source-sink, either it goes through the help of Carnot machine or just through a heat tunnel. Well, if the entropy of the universe remains the same, then the work extracted from the machine would have to decrease the entropy of the rest of the universe. Let's suppose the work was used to lift some weight. Does that make sense? The weight being higher would mean a decrease in the entropy of the system earth-weight?

  • @nikan4now

    @nikan4now

    9 жыл бұрын

    Gaudio Wind When a cycle is completed, it goes back to the same point. Entropy is a state property so the total change in entropy for a completed cycle is zero. You are not supposed to connect the two reservoirs. If you did, the heat exchange between the two reservoirs would increase the entropy of the two reservoirs. The entropy of universe would increase.

  • @GaudioWind

    @GaudioWind

    9 жыл бұрын

    Nikan RT Thanks again Nikan, but I think either I or you did not understand the overall situation. I think that only the gas comes to the same point at the end of each cycle. The hot source never gets back the heat it gave to the gas. And the cool sink never leaves back the heat it received from the gas. So a cycle is performed by the gas but not for the overall system constituted by the hot source, the cool sink and the gas. According to my understanding, during a complete cycle, heat is taken from the source, it is partially transformed into work and the rest is left to the sink. How can we think that the source and the sink come back to the same state?

  • @GaudioWind

    @GaudioWind

    9 жыл бұрын

    Nikan RT Sorry, Nikan. I think I see what you mean now. And I Think I see my mistake. If the hot source and the cool sink are not ideal (or maybe not infinite) that is, if they could not keep their temperatures, the cycle could never occur, of course. There would be no those isothermal transformations, in the first place. I think we would have to execute a reverse cycle with another portion of gas at the same time, between the same source and sink, to keep their temperatures constant if they were limited. Does that make sense?

  • @iLuvTofu20
    @iLuvTofu2012 жыл бұрын

    Never said that.

  • @fugacityxdunk6782
    @fugacityxdunk67827 жыл бұрын

    thermodynamics is awesome!

  • @matthewcupelli5901

    @matthewcupelli5901

    7 жыл бұрын

    You and you only

  • @technicaleducationaldtalks1677

    @technicaleducationaldtalks1677

    6 жыл бұрын

    It is those who have interest come to the point.Good job bro.Anyway those not interested in this or in anything but only love themselves and their theories and say we have no right to call and correct them can be ignored or even given a piece of truth so this does not go bad like I hate the subject instead It was OK. Try on.I too am interested.Keep support up.

  • @cptcabo
    @cptcabo13 жыл бұрын

    "Procyclic Heat Transformation Theory" remember that I have the (C) copywright on the theory....eventually its going to be known who actually gave you the idea. I know you proved the math, but nobody actually understanstands "Entropy" in a quantum leap.

  • @rentatrip1videos
    @rentatrip1videos13 жыл бұрын

    entropy -or-Maxwell's Demon is the little carrot on a string out in front of the goat on the Little Rascals home made cart

  • @iLuvTofu20
    @iLuvTofu2012 жыл бұрын

    There are no pain receptors in your brain therefore you can't feel pain.

  • @ThompsonBMXbikes
    @ThompsonBMXbikes8 жыл бұрын

    This proves my warm fart theory. I knew there was a good reason the warm ones smelled so bad. Q was written in brown. Awesome!

  • @SuperMinecraftanator
    @SuperMinecraftanator10 жыл бұрын

    Nothing can really be adiabatic? I think so.

  • @varunkumara7221

    @varunkumara7221

    8 жыл бұрын

    When a process takes place very fastly, we can APPROXIMATE it as adiabatic. For example, the compression and expansion processes in IC engines take place so fast that (approx. 40rps in petrol!) we can almost approximate it as adiabatic.

  • @tdfridgen
    @tdfridgen14 жыл бұрын

    you should also state that friction is another type of "inefficiency" which has NOTHING to do with the theoretical efficiency. To do a more correct version of this video, you should take rocks off, rather than pebbles (still frictionless). You should leave friction out of the discussion until the very end and state that real systems (engine), with friction cannot even get to the theoretical efficiency. Your use of friction in the videos is incorrect.

  • @idster7
    @idster714 жыл бұрын

    @SteroidsR4success i don't think you understood my question.

  • @jordanhyatt8381
    @jordanhyatt838111 жыл бұрын

    I'm the 115,001th viewer. :3

  • @iLuvTofu20
    @iLuvTofu2012 жыл бұрын

    You are right! LOL

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    @KiroStun11 жыл бұрын

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    @ShivamMishra-jl9dl6 жыл бұрын

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  • @subscribemebecauseimsubscr1896

    @subscribemebecauseimsubscr1896

    5 жыл бұрын

    😂 haha

  • @VERGIS92
    @VERGIS9212 жыл бұрын

    and how does thermodynamics disprove Christianity?

  • @The0Almighty0Lord
    @The0Almighty0Lord12 жыл бұрын

    yo khan do u smoke weed lol?

  • @iLuvTofu20
    @iLuvTofu2012 жыл бұрын

    Two Christians disliked this video.

  • @losdodgerz
    @losdodgerz13 жыл бұрын

    I got a wife praise the Lord!!!