History of Thermodynamics - I: Steam Engine
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Steam Engine, Vacuum, Atmospheric PressureAbstract
Historically, the second law of thermodynamics was first to be formulated. Standard treatment of the second law of thermodynamics begins with the work of Sadi Carnot in text books or class room teaching. In this article, I will present a train of ideas related to the development of steam engine that drove the industrial revolution in Europe and culminated in laying the foundations to thermodynamics through Carnot's work.
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S.V.M. Satyanarayana, Department of Physics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
The author teaches Physics at Pondicherry University, Puducherry. He obtained his Ph.D from Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam affiliated to University of Madras in the field of nonlinear dynamics and Chaos. He worked as a scientific officer at IGCAR during 1999 to 2006 where he worked on computational modeling of reactor safety problems. He worked as a post doctoral fellow at Research centre Juelich, Germnay for one year during 2003-2004 where he worked on monte carlo simulation of biological cell migration. He joined Pondicherry University in May 2006 and continues to work in the areas of statistical mechanics and quantum information science.
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