Entropy Draft Text Only – Readers’ suggestions and inputs are welcome When a car or locomotive runs or brakes, we say that the heat escaping from it is “lost”. The Second Law of Thermodynamics explains this by saying that “energy will tend to dissipate from a hot or high energy body to a cold or […]
Page Under Development This page is still “under development”. Please contact the webmaster@advanced-steam.org if you would like to help by contributing text to this or any other page. Thermodynamics Nomenclature: T = temperature (oK) V = volume of system (cubic metres) P or p = pressure at the boundary of the system and its environment, […]
Draft Text Only – Readers’ suggestions and inputs are welcome Introduction Oliver Bullied, disciple of Gresley and famously progressive CME of the Southern Railway, is often quoted as saying “Thermodynamics never sold a single locomotive” (or words to that effect) when commenting on Chapelon’s contemporary locomotive developments in France. Whether true or apocryphal, the remark […]
Page Under Development This page is still “under development”. Please contact the webmaster@advanced-steam.org if you would like to help by contributing text to this or any other page. Definitions of thermodynamic concepts such as Entropy and Enthalpy are provided on separate pages of this website. Numerous useful (and often diverse) definitions of these and other […]