cycles… for k….

The thing about cycles is… it’s not that you go nowhere, it’s even worse…

You can thank Sadi Carnot and the second law of thermodynamics. Carnot was talking about steam engines, but his statements have broader applicability.

A strictly cyclic process does no work. In resetting the system back to its initial state, no net effect has been produced.

In order for a cyclic process to produce a net effect (Work) it must be allowed to interact with its environment. To be precise, it must be allowed to release HEAT into the environment, thus increasing its “entropy” – the disorganization of its configuration and its energy.

Therefore, any work you do is balanced by a corresponding increase in entropy (“disorder”) somewhere else in the universe.

Good luck with your housework.

d.

(doctorsilence.blogspot.com)