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Studies heat engines through cyclic processes and reversible reasoning, relating ideal motive power to hot and cold conditions rather than the working substance.
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Scientific scope
The 1824 argument uses caloric theory. Its historical assumptions remain visible; modern energy conservation, the absolute-temperature efficiency formula and a complete second law are not retrospectively attributed to it.
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- Carnot, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824), Université de Liège original edition
- Carnot, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, transcription of the 1824 original
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Sadi Carnot
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Carnot: heat-engine cycles and limits of ideal performance
Studies heat engines through cyclic processes and reversible reasoning, relating ideal motive power to hot and cold conditions rather than the working substance.
Scientific scope
The 1824 argument uses caloric theory. Its historical assumptions remain visible; modern energy conservation, the absolute-temperature efficiency formula and a complete second law are not retrospectively attributed to it.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Sadi Carnot
Listed source contributors; individual labor shares are not measured