Inconsistency of Carnot's theorem's proof by R. Clausius
History and Philosophy of Physics
2013-03-12 v1
Abstract
R. Clausius proved Carnot's theorem basing on postulate "Heat cannot, of itself, pass from a colder to a hotter body". Alexander Gukhman demonstrated that Carnot's theorem can be proved based on the postulate "Heat cannot, of itself, pass from a hotter to a colder body". He concluded that Carnot's theorem does not follow from Clausius' postulate. The following paper gives a detailed justification of Gukhman's derivation.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.2123,
title = {Inconsistency of Carnot's theorem's proof by R. Clausius},
author = {V. Ihnatovych},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2123},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
6 pages