I am a mechanical engineering graduate and this is the first time I understood Carnot cycle clearly

I love how you defined entropy as not simply randomness, but how energy ends up being converted to useless forms.

Did they just portray nickleback as unusable form of energy 😂 at 2:10

Crash Course is legitimately better than the thermodynamics course that I am taking at my university.

I am an aerospace engineer and I have been mocked by these "physicists" for being an end-user of their theories and equations. Guess what?! Sadi Carnot, the father of Thermodynamics, was actually a mechanical engineer. On behalf of all mechanical and aerospace engineers in the world: IN YOUR FACE Sheldon Cooper!

The way I see it, the 2nd law isn't _fundamentally_ about energy at all. Rather, it's all about probability. It's not that we _can't_ make a perfectly efficient engine, it's just the the probability of it happening is practically 0, but actually slightly higher. What's really going on is that entropy is a measure of the number of states a system can exist in. We talk about macrostates vs microstates. For example, if our system consists of a single vase, one potential macrostate would be "broken". A microstates is an exact configuration of particles. There are FAR, FAR more microstates that correspond to "broken vase" than "not broken vase", so a system consisting of a broken vase has higher entropy than one consistenting of a whole vase. This is where the misleading description of entropy as being a measure of "disorder" comes from. Most macrostates we'd consider disordered are higher entropy simple because there are more microstates that correspond to them. But this isn't what entropy is about. So what does this have to do with energy and efficiency? Well anytime we apply energy to a system to do work on it, we're changing the state of the system. Even if we intentionally apply the energy in a very specific manner, there are simply SO MANY ways for some of the energy to be wasted compared to the number of ways for it to all be used for useful work. There's nothing _stopping_ a 100% efficient heat engine from existing, per se, but the probability of it even a single perfectly efficient heat engine cycle to occur is such that we'd never expect it to happen in any way imaginable amount of time. _However,_ given infinite time, it's virtually _guarenteed_ to happen, not just once, but an infinite number of time. That's because _anything_ with a non-zero probability of occuring, no matter how tiny, will eventually occur given a sufficiently long period of time. However, the probability is such a thing is probably on par with the probability of all the particles in your body quantum tunneling at the exactly the same time in such a manner to teleport you someplace. It theoretically _could_ happen, but don't count on it. I think the amount time needed for it to have even a 50% chance of occuring is longer than the age of the universe, though I'm going on memory.

Can we talk about how she said “unusable energy” and the graphic was a nickel back album

We should find Carnot's burial site...

I'm in my final year as a physics undergrad, but due to chance and schedule conflicts, I won't get to take Thermal Physics and thermodynamics until next spring, my very last semester. I'm really loving these episodes, they feel so fresh and exciting compared to the topics I'm more familiar with.

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is that you don't talk about Thermodynamics.

Thanks for that, filled me with nostalgia for Dr Cohen's lectures in Cambridge 40 years ago.

Entropy is such a cool concept....it took a genius to define it

Thanks, in my home we always obey the the four laws of thermodynamics.

thank you for putting it in such an easy to understand and clear video, very well-spoken. Scary how bad my thermodynamics teacher is.

engine goes vroom vroom

Shes a great teacher Keep em coming Wonderful show guys love these videos

Thanks, finally a clear exposé of what entropy is !

Dr Shini Samara is the best ! Loving the series thus far, continue the great work

Have you ever tried mixing seltzer water with juice? It's surprisingly good.

finally, a definition of entropy that is useful. simply saying “disorder” or “randomness” gives no insight into why entropy would matter.

Perfect explanation. Carnot is a real genius.

There should be another rectangle at the end of the episode that says "Want to know what an Existential Crisis is click here" and the CC Philosophy episode is hyperlinked.

Mr. nobody was a great movie. Underrated.

So glad you are helping spreading the word on the issues that confront and limit the energy engineer to solve the problems that effect our world so much such as climate change and energy depletion. We're not magicians just artist using the pallete of engineering physics.

5:48 why does it feels like im watching a movie? also i had to watch it 5 million times to understand it.

Very informative and great animation. I'm impressed.

I like this show, but that shelf is messing with my OCD.

Crash Course doesn't like Nickelback, therefore I like Crash Course. It's simple, really.

goddamn entropy with your cut of the energy. I bet you're saving it for a big bang

Couldn’t see anyone talking about how amazing her background shelf

Two dissimilar metal wires twisted togeather into a thermocouple can produce useable power from heat.

The world would be a better place if entropy was measured in degrees Clausius

Physics is my favorite subject

This is really cool! I always loved learning new things, thank you!

You should saw a P-V diagram. It would really explain why and how Carnot desinged his engine. Now it's just like "it's this trust me"

Some Fullmetal Alcimist lessons done right here. Good job guys!

Happy to hear Your voice again Shini! It's been a while since I finished my 12th grade & stopped watching CrashCourse

The nickel back album was hilarious haha

I think your videos are great. The fact that only 10% of veiwers at this moment give it a thumbs up says people and subscribers need to wake up. Thanks for the wake up call even if we the viewers only give it a like in one out of ten views. Personally I plan to rewatch them and share them with my children. Awesome! thankyou!

I love your videos, they always help me to understand and solve my homework :D

This is the best series by the way than G0T as well

in russia incandescent light bulbs have 100% efficiency

Mercedes petronas’s 4 cylinder turbo charged engine is close to 60% thermal efficiency

To decrease entropy is to travel back in time

Thank you this video helped me a lot and explained things that i didn't understand before and i watched it more than once in different time to remember or understand things Thanks a lot

i hate calling entropy disorder, it's very Bayesian. Also, saying that the entropy of the universe always increase is assuming the universe is a isolated system, which we don't really know.

Could you do one on fuel cell engines and how we might be able to convert the hydrogen more efficiently for a full working type

You can work and research Thermodynamics following the career of Chemical or Mechanical Engineering. This is an extremely broad field that governs the laws of nature. Therefore the approaches can be extremely different. In CE, it is much more focused on Equilibrium of solutions/mixtures of solids, liquids and gases and different chemicals (which is hardly seen by MEs). In ME it is much more on Heat Cycles.

I'm too dumb for this. I do however give myself credit for making it half way through.

We already have, they're called electric motors. 95+% efficient is pretty good. Maybe CrashCourse could do a video on the VW I.D. R.

I have no friend in Engineering college T T feels so bad man.

you made engineering so easy thank you espeacially thermodynamics

awesome, best explainatoin and visualisatoin for carnot found so far, best to the whole team :)

entropy. Brian Cox has some very good segments about it too

great nickelback reference

I don’t understand why we need 4 parts of the Carnot cycle. If we were just doing isobaric heating and cooling(changing temperature while keeping pressure constant), we’d get the piston to move because of changing volume. And if we assume no heat being lost to the environment(like perfect reservoirs in Carnot cycle), we’d get 100% efficiency.

I'm designing a new kind of stirling engine that can use solar heat and theoretically has 45-55% heat efficiency and can be 90% 3D printed.

While thermal efficiency is only 25% from the 4 stroke action modern engines are volumetrically 95% or better with forced induction... cooling with the fuel is used in jet turbine engines to also prep the fuel for combustion... Smokey yunick made a "hot air engine" and got 500 HP out of a 2.5l modified ironduke fiero based on experience of an engine running amazing just before blowing up and hydrogen Reformation

I really understud what the second law of thermodynamics means, Thanks!

they got a baddy doing these now im boutta be hella smart

Dig up his note books!

Good episode team CC Engineering.

My rotary goes BRAP BRAP BRAP

Nickleback XD!!

Who is this lady? She is awesome and knows her stuff.

Thank you for teaching me stuff :)

Fantastic episode, thank you!

We did invent the perfect engine. The 427 was about as good as it gets.

Dr. Shini Somara Or Crash Course, can you do one about how the Arc Reactor (Tony Stark) achieves over 110% efficient and how it COULD be possible, Like for a Halloween special? Thanks even if you don't and I like history and engineering videos.

I keep thinking about Muse's Isolated System whenever she says entropy

I would like to play this vedio at 0.5x playback speed...... now it's perfect......🙂🙂

Loved it. Thank you very much.

Looks like a lot of entropy was gained putting up those shelves.

I put this on at night to help me fall asleep

Thanks you too much your such a great teacher and your voice is very easy to listen too! Way better then Khan academy lol

You have to use state changes in exotic circumstances. There are two ways either create a harmonic vortaic system that uses outside thermal noise to power the system or create a system that throws itself into a constant state of unbalance by it operation to the point where you get a separation of thermal states then pull the work off the collapseing phase change which can be introduced to the system.

Maybe just me, but whoever edited this video with no gaps between paragraphs is a genius. Makes the narrative compelling.

0:27 Yeah you can, its called a VQ35DE, or a 13B-REW

Entropy is a surprisingly complicated and misunderstood concept.

Video not uploaded on this thursday. I'm missing it

Rankine cycle is the next video I guess

Isn't a Hurricane an irl perfect engine. I know it is to big to use right now, but the universe does allow for perfect engines that violate no laws with the right scale and material. For human scale finding a way to stabilize liquid He, and other meta materials might get us the closest we can get at human scales.

2:17 sideburn Nickelback!

Idk who this is, but she’s smart and cute AF!

the last explaination on entropy, the universe entropy everyday is increasing which implies no useful work from energy increases i;e all the usable energy is transformed to only heat and leads DEATH of university is SCARY...

Thank you ...

thank you very much for this video :)

Nice explanation 😊👌👍😘

The perfect engine may not be possible but you are the perfect Indian beauty.

Great work

Pretty sure Mr. Garrison made the perfect automobile

Does the thibgs on the shelf are glued?

what about the 2J?

Kyubey pls.

does the second law of thermodynamics actually restrict the inter-conversion between heat and work or does it restrict the efficiency of the inter-conversion between heat and work

Crude topic! Is inposible to cover it in 13min.

I hope you got permission for the Jetsons animation.

Engine as long as it still useful on working field it good

Perpetual motion engine.

And what about all those patents for permanent magnet motors or SERL effect generator?