Perpetuities

There are many equivalent statements of the second law, some of which involve statements about heat engines and perpetual motion machines of the second kind that appear superficially quite different from equation (A2.T21). They will not be dealt with here, but two variant fonns of equation (A2.T21) may be noted in... 

The course instructors or professors have not tried to intentionally deceive their students. Most individuals cannot grasp the full depth and detail of any chemical concept the first time that it is presented to them. It has been found that most people learn complex subjects best when first given a basic description of the concepts and then left to develop a more detailed understanding over time. Despite the best elforts of educators, a few misconceptions are at times possibly introduced in the attempt to simplify complex material for freshmen students. The part of this process that perpetuates any confusion is the fact that texts and instructors alike often do not acknowledge the simplifications being presented. 

Renewable carbon resources is a misnomer the earth s carbon is in a perpetual state of flux. Carbon is not consumed such that it is no longer available in any form. Reversible and irreversible chemical reactions occur in such a manner that the carbon cycle makes all forms of carbon, including fossil resources, renewable. It is simply a matter of time that makes one carbon from more renewable than another. If it is presumed that replacement does in fact occur, natural processes eventually will replenish depleted petroleum or natural gas deposits in several million years. Eixed carbon-containing materials that renew themselves often enough to make them continuously available in large quantities are needed to maintain and supplement energy suppHes biomass is a principal source of such carbon. 

Eurther reactions of the alkylperoxy radical (ROO-) depend on the environment but generally cause generation of other radicals that can attack undecomposed hydrosend peroxide, thus perpetuating the induced decomposition chain. Radicals also can attack undecomposed peroxide by radical displacement on the oxygen—oxygen bond ... 

In free molecular flow, if gaseous conductance were not independent of the flow direction, a perpetual-motion machine could be constmcted by connecting two large volumes by a pair of identical ducts having a turbine in front of one of the ducts. A duct that has asymmetricaUy shaped grooves on its waU surface could alter the probabUity of molecular passage in such a way that for a tube of equal entrance and exit areas, the probabUity of passage would be made directional. 

Ck is in excess of Cpc by an amount which, when compounded at an annual interest rate i for n years, will have a future worth of less the salvage or scrap value S. 11 the renewal cost of the equipment remains constant at (Cp S) and the interest rate remains constant at i, then Ck is the amount of capital required to replace the equipment in perpetuity. 

The capitahzed cost of a piece of fixed-capital cost Cpc is the amount of capital reqiiired to ensure that the equipment may be renewed in perpetuity. For a piece of equipment with no scrap value, Ck is given by... 

Completely trivial names continue in use for good reasons, of which an important one is the need for a simple name for frequent communication concerning a commonly encountered compound or structure. For obscure compounds there is surely neither need nor desirability to perpetuate trivial names, and coining new trivial names is almost never justified. Let us, however, consider purine , the trivial name for what might more systematically be named imidazo[5,4-ring system is so important in biochemistry that exclusive use of one of the systematic names would be intolerable. If the name purine were not available, another short trivial name would inevitably be coined, or even an acronym ( IP or TAP ). It is better to retain the name sanctioned by roughly a century of use, and benefit from a link in comprehension with the past. 

Permanent, meaning that the reduetions will eontinue in perpetuity. 

When heat is transformed into any other form of energy, or when other forms of energy are transformed into heat, the total amount of energy (heat plus other forms) in the system is constant. This is known as the first law of thermodynamics, i.e., the eonservation of energy. To express it another way it is m no way possible either by meehanieal, thermal, ehemical, or other means, to obtain a perpetual motion maehine i.e., one that ereates its own energy. 

Equation 1.4-7 showed that as long as consequences are small enough, that effects are lineai, i.e., not so catastrophic as to affect the perpetuation of civilization, the number of injuries or fatalities in either case are the same whether or not there are many small accidents or a few large accidents. But the public, either because of information sources or for more fundamental reasons does not see it this way. Since the public affects government, public perception is a concern. 

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Thermodynamic considerations demand that the energy necessary for biosynthesis of any substance exceed the energy available from its catabolism. Otherwise, organisms could achieve the status of perpetual motion machines A few molecules of substrate whose catabolism yielded more ATP than required for its resynthesis would allow the cell to cycle this substance and harvest an endless supply of energy. 

Uiiergrlin, n. periwinkle, myrtle (Vinca). iniiierhm, adv. still, after all, at any rate. gunersionsflussigkeit, /. immersion liquid, miner-wahrend, p.a. everlasting, perpetual. 

John W. Keely (lS27-1898j sealed to what he claimed was Ihe first perpetual motion machine until after he died. (Corbis Corporation)... 

To prove that a particular design of a perpetual motion machine will not work can be vei y time consuming, and the predictable negative result has never been worth the effort. Therefore, the U.S. Patent Office has a policy to not examine applications covering perpetual motion machines unless the applicant furnishes a working model. 

The nonexistence of perpetual motion machines, despite centuries of effort to design them, has been used to support the law of consciwation of energy. This law is based, however, not on this negative result, but on all the experiments performed to date in which energy is carefully accounted for. It has never been observed to fail. This law is, therefore, a good basis from which to analyze perpetual motion machines. It clearly states that the goal of getting... 

There are many systems in nature that for practical purposes are perpetual. The rotation of the Earth does not change perceptibly in any person s lifetime. Very careful measurements can detect such changes, and they arc predictable based on the tidal interaction with the sun and the moon. At the current rate of decrease, the Earth s rotation relative to the Sun would stop in 5.4 billion years. Systems that are unchanging lor practical purposes, but which are running down ever so slowly, do not count as perpetual motion. 

The electrons of atoms in their ground state are in perpetual motion. Also, in a gas, each atom has an average kinetic energy (motion) depending on the temperature of the gas. These motions don t count ei th er because humans demand something on their own scale that they can see or take advantage of before they consider it as true perpetual motion. 

The consideration of the simple pendulum illustrates the basic problem behind devising a perpetual motion machine. The problem is the fact that energy exists in several forms and is transformed from one form to the other, especially when motion is involved. Even if friction is eliminated, there arc still the electromagnetic radiation and gravitational inter-... 

There would remain some very small residual motion of the pendulum due to the air molecules striking it at random (Brownian motion), but that does not count in the game of perpetual motion. In the condition of residual motion, the pendulum is just another (big) molecule sharing equally in the average kinetic energy of all the individual air molecules. In other words, the pendulum eventually comes to thermal equilibrium with the air. 

Similar considerations apply to all other schemes to produce perpetual motion. No matter how it is designed, an isolated system will always tend toward a condition of thermal equilibrium, which never involves motion of objects on a human scale, and is thus not perpetual motion. ... 

Ord-Hume, A. (1977). Perpetual Motion The History of an Obsession. New York St. Manin s Press. 

Their data translated into a power output of lOOW/kg. Where was the power coming from Was this finally an illimitable source of energy, nature s own perpetual-motion machine It was here that Einstein, in a concise phrase, carried the argument to its limit. In his own derivation of = mcr in 1905, five years after Poincare s observation, he remarked that any body emitting radiation should lose weight. 

George earned the prestigious position of brakesman at the Dolly Pit colliery, responsible for the engine used for hauling coal out of the mines. He was married in 1802. During that year he made an unsuccessful attempt to build a perpetual motion machine. But he did gain respect in the community as an accomplished clock-mender. 

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