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  • The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

    Rudolf Clausius (1867). “The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies”, p.365
  • The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy of the universe is constant. 2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

    Science   Law   Two  
    Rudolf Clausius (1867). “The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies”, p.365
  • The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

  • In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

    Done   May   Heat  
    "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)
  • The energy of the universe is constant.

    "Ueber Verschiedene fur die Anwendung Bequeme Formen der Hauptgleichungen der Mechanischen Warmetheorie" (1865).
  • The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.

  • Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.

    Body   Heat   Connected  
    "On a Modified Form of the Second Fundamental Theorem in the Mechanical Theory of Heat" (1856)
  • The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

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