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  1. How heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps operate.
  2. How the second law of thermodynamics limits the efficiency of heat engines.
  3. How thermal processes lead to an increase in entropy.
  4. The difference between low-grade and high-grade energy.
  5. How the laws of thermodynamics prohibit perpetual motion machines.





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