Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

[tobysnelgrove]

Hey HumanChemistry101 - Wrong ... he merely gave the mathematical foundation for thermal dynamics, he did not prove either law ...

Toby

[HumanChemistry101]

Pretty good video. The paper by Carnot was the 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. You are incorrect, however, in your statement that *neither of these two laws can be proven theoretically*, Clausius, in his 1865 The Mechanical Theory of Heat, presented one of most cogent on paper proofs in all of science, in deriving the first and second law.