Carnot
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1. Carnot - Noun
2. Carnot - Proper noun
Meaning
French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832)
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What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
A Carnot cycle is a special kind of cyclic process affecting a body composed of material suitable for use in a heat engine.
A Carnot heat engine In French, Carnot uses machine à feu, which Thurston translates as heat-engine or steam-engine.
According to the second theorem, "The efficiency of the Carnot engine is independent of the nature of the working substance".
Any machine or process that is claimed to produce an efficiency greater than the Carnot efficiency is not viable because it violates the second law of thermodynamics.
After experimenting with a Carnot Cycle engine, he developed his own approach.