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Irreversible heat engines and the second law of thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by C. Truesdell

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1976
Weight: 778 KB
Volume: 3
Category: Article
ISSN: 0094-4548
DOI: 10.1016/0094-4548(76)90027-8

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