Carnot cycle
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Carnot Cycle
Series of changes in the physical condition of a gas in a reversible heat engine, necessarily in the following order: (1) isothermal expansion (without change of temperature), (2) adiabatic expansion (without change of heat content), (3) isothermal compression, and (4) adiabatic compression.
The principles derived from a study of this cycle are important in the fundamentals of heat and thermodynamics.
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