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Unreal perpetual motion machine, Rydberg constant and Carnot non-unitary efficiency as a consequence of the atomic irreversibility

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  • Lucia, Umberto

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A perpetual motion machine is a completely ideal engine which cannot be realized. Carnot introduced the concept of the ideal engine which operates on a completely reversible cycle, without any dissipation, but with an upper limit in it. So, even in ideal condition without any dissipation, there is something that prevents the conversion of all the energy absorbed by an ideal reservoir into work. But what is the cause of irreversibility? Here we highlight the atomic nature of this irreversibility, proving that it is no more than the continuous interaction of the atoms with the surrounding field. The macroscopic irreversibility is the consequence of the microscopic irreversibility.

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  • Lucia, Umberto, 2018. "Unreal perpetual motion machine, Rydberg constant and Carnot non-unitary efficiency as a consequence of the atomic irreversibility," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 492(C), pages 962-968.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:492:y:2018:i:c:p:962-968
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.11.027
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    1. Umberto Lucia & Giulia Grisolia, 2022. "Thermodynamic Definition of Time: Considerations on the EPR Paradox," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(15), pages 1-12, July.
    2. Zakharov, A.Yu., 2019. "On physical principles and mathematical mechanisms of the phenomenon of irreversibility," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 525(C), pages 1289-1295.

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