Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer

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Autor(a) principal: Stilck,Jürgen F.
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Brum,Rafael Mynssem
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (Online)
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Resumo: We study a process of heat transfer between a body of heat capacity C(T) and a sequence of N heat reservoirs, with temperatures equally spaced between an initial temperature T0 and a final temperature T N. The body and the heat reservoirs are isolated from the rest of the universe, and the body is brought in thermal contact successively with reservoirs of increasing temperature. We determine the change of entropy of the composite thermodynamic system in the total process in which the temperature of the body changes from T0 to T N. We find that for large values of N the total change of entropy of the composite process is proportional to (T N - T0) / N, but eventually a non-monotonic behavior is found at small values of N.
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spelling Reversible limit of processes of heat transfersecond law of thermodynamicsentropyreversible and irreversible processesheat exchangeWe study a process of heat transfer between a body of heat capacity C(T) and a sequence of N heat reservoirs, with temperatures equally spaced between an initial temperature T0 and a final temperature T N. The body and the heat reservoirs are isolated from the rest of the universe, and the body is brought in thermal contact successively with reservoirs of increasing temperature. We determine the change of entropy of the composite thermodynamic system in the total process in which the temperature of the body changes from T0 to T N. We find that for large values of N the total change of entropy of the composite process is proportional to (T N - T0) / N, but eventually a non-monotonic behavior is found at small values of N.Sociedade Brasileira de Física2013-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172013000400006Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física v.35 n.4 2013reponame:Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (Online)instname:Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF)instacron:SBF10.1590/S1806-11172013000400006info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessStilck,Jürgen F.Brum,Rafael Mynssemeng2015-11-05T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1806-11172013000400006Revistahttp://www.sbfisica.org.br/rbef/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||marcio@sbfisica.org.br1806-91261806-1117opendoar:2015-11-05T00:00Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (Online) - Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
title Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
spellingShingle Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
Stilck,Jürgen F.
second law of thermodynamics
entropy
reversible and irreversible processes
heat exchange
title_short Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
title_full Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
title_fullStr Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
title_full_unstemmed Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
title_sort Reversible limit of processes of heat transfer
author Stilck,Jürgen F.
author_facet Stilck,Jürgen F.
Brum,Rafael Mynssem
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author2 Brum,Rafael Mynssem
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Stilck,Jürgen F.
Brum,Rafael Mynssem
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv second law of thermodynamics
entropy
reversible and irreversible processes
heat exchange
topic second law of thermodynamics
entropy
reversible and irreversible processes
heat exchange
description We study a process of heat transfer between a body of heat capacity C(T) and a sequence of N heat reservoirs, with temperatures equally spaced between an initial temperature T0 and a final temperature T N. The body and the heat reservoirs are isolated from the rest of the universe, and the body is brought in thermal contact successively with reservoirs of increasing temperature. We determine the change of entropy of the composite thermodynamic system in the total process in which the temperature of the body changes from T0 to T N. We find that for large values of N the total change of entropy of the composite process is proportional to (T N - T0) / N, but eventually a non-monotonic behavior is found at small values of N.
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