Modified Mastering Physics with Pearson eText -- Combo Access -- for Physics for Scientist and Engineers (18 week)
Modified Mastering Physics with Pearson eText -- Combo Access -- for Physics for Scientist and Engineers (18 week)
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Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
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Whether it is possible to transform mechanical energy into heat or internal energy completely and whether the reverse may happen or not.

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Answer to Problem 1Q

It is possible to transform mechanical energy into heat or internal energy completely, but the reverse may not happen.

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It is possible to convert all the mechanical energy into heat or internal energy. An example for such a case is that bringing an object moving on a surface to rest by means of friction. In such a case, the whole mechanical energy is dissipated as heat due to the friction force which oppose the motion of the object.

The complete transformation of heat into mechanical energy does not happen in the physical world. It can be assumed to happen in some ideal cases such as the adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas. According to second law of thermodynamics, it is not possible for a self-acting system to convert heat energy completely to work or mechanical energy. Suppose a process of an explosion lead to the conversion of the internal energy of the system to mechanical energy to a high extend, but some energy would be lost in the form of heat. Thus mechanical energy can be transformed into heat or internal energy completely, but the reverse may not happen since it violates the second law of thermodynamics.

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