AP PHYSICS 2
Entropy in Heat Engines
DESCRIPTION
Visualize the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Build reversible Carnot engines and irreversible real engines to track the exact entropy changes in the hot reservoir, cold reservoir, and the universe.
AP EXAM RELEVANCE
- thermodynamics
- entropy
- heat engine
- carnot
- AP Physics 2
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