If we build an engine for a car or anything else, it almost always is going to have some key element that's operating in a cycle, otherwise it won't keep going, right.

如果我们为一辆汽车，或其他什么东西制造一台引擎,它总要有一些关键，要素来形成循环。

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And I wanted to do it a different way which is a little bit convoluted, but it introduces the idea of a thermodynamic cycle, and it's something that we're going to use a lot in the class.

现在我将用另一种,有些复杂的办法来推导这一关系，在这一过程中引入,我们今后会常接触到的,热力学循环的概念。

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Each year it's dramatized by the cycle of the seasons, And at a certain time of the year it seems that The forces of darkness and chaos are prevailing but each spring, Once again, cosmic order and life return.

每年这冲突都由季节的轮回戏剧性地体现出来，仿佛是每年都有一个时期,弥散着黑暗和混乱的势力，可是每当春天来临，宇庙的秩序又恢复了。

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Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.

这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下

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q2 So it's got q2, w and it's got a cycle w.

得到的热量是，有一个循环，功是。

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Now, if we go back to our Carnot cycle which is a set of reversible paths, it's useful to compare this to what happens in an irreversible case.

如果回到卡诺循环,它是由一系列可逆过程组成，我们将它,和不可逆过程的情况相比较。

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It's not a result that's specific to the one cycle that we put up.

这不是某一个,特定热机的结果。

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And the cycle it's going to undertake is called a Carnot cycle, and it works the following way: we're going to do pressure volume work.

它的循环过程,叫做卡诺循环，过程如下：,这是个压强体积系统。

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