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Elements Of Electromagnetics

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ISBN:9780190698614

Author:Sadiku, Matthew N. O.

Publisher:Sadiku, Matthew N. O.

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Discuss Transferring heat to a wire will not generate electricity.

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Transferring heat to a wire will not generate electricity deal with natural constrain put forward by the second law of thermodynamics.

While the electricity in a wire can produce heat but transferring the heat back to the wire cannot produce the electricity. It is a natural constraint of the second law of thermodynamics which tells there is a fixed direction of a spontaneous process and the quantity which determines it is entropy.

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