Carathéodory’s Principle and the Second Law: Adiabatic Comparability and Irrecoverability

In David A. Lavis & Roman Frigg, The Fundamentals of Thermodynamics. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 85-117 (2025)
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With these grounds laid, this would seem to be the appropriate point to introduce some version of the Second Law.Second Lawdifferent forms This is indeed what we do in this chapter, however with a rather different approach from that usually adopted.

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