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Kelvin-planck Statement

The Kelvin-Planck Statement is a formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics that asserts it is impossible for any device operating in a cycle to receive heat from a single reservoir and produce a net amount of work, thereby distinguishing permissible thermodynamic processes from those that violate the principle of energy degradation.

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Kelvin-planck Formulation

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Eco-thermodynamics: economics and the second law

Robert U. Ayres · Ecological Economics · 1998 · 299 citations

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Bluff Your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Jos Uffink · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics · 2001 · 280 citations · Full text

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Thermodynamic universality of quantum Carnot engines

Bartłomiej Gardas, Sebastian Deffner · Physical Review E · 2015 · 139 citations · Full text

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Four laws that drive the universe

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 132 citations

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The Principle of Minimum Time: A Unifying Constraint from Energy-Efficiency Theory

Hongpu Yang · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026 · 97 citations · Full text

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    Daniel P. Sheehan

    University of San Diego, United States

    3 publications · 87 citations

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    Sebastian Deffner

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

    2 publications · 157 citations

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  3. DW
    D. Wilkie

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  4. VČ
    V. Čápek

    Charles University, Czechia

    2 publications · 47 citations

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    Kathryn M. Olesko

    Georgetown University, United States

    1 publications · 54 citations

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  1. University of San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  3. Louisiana State University

    Baton Rouge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    34 citations

  4. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    291 citations

  5. FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

    Prague, Czechia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    69 citations

  6. Charles University

    Prague, Czechia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    69 citations

  7. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    278 citations

  8. Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    71 citations

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  1. American Journal of Physics

    5 publications · 90 citations

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  3. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 2 publications · 57 citations

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  5. Nature Communications

    2 publications · 70 citations

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