Reversibility & Irreversibility: Crash Course Engineering #8

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  • Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
  • How do we design the most efficient machines and processes? Today we’ll try to figure that out as we discuss heat & work, reversibility & irreversibility, and how to use efficiency to measure a system.
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Комментарии • 141

  • @matthewclements6603
    @matthewclements6603 6 лет назад +309

    The first law of thermodynamics is that you do not talk about thermodynamics.

    • @ALTDOK667
      @ALTDOK667 6 лет назад +12

      Lisa! In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  • @oldcowbb
    @oldcowbb 5 лет назад +291

    "Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, so it doesn't bother you any more."

    • @onetwo4833
      @onetwo4833 4 года назад +10

      Oh how inspiring hahaha. Thanks..

    • @noodlegod1031
      @noodlegod1031 4 года назад +2

      sound like a back subject to me

  • @yarely
    @yarely 6 лет назад +86

    SHOUT OUT TO CRASH COURSE FOR HI-QUALITY VIDEOS!

  • @nightdreamer2315
    @nightdreamer2315 6 лет назад +143

    I’m not studying engineering but this was very interesting to me.

  • @moonkookie1505
    @moonkookie1505 4 года назад +24

    Great videos, I love that woman's enthusiasm, really easy to listen to and follow, when i typed engineering basics i would've never thought I'd find mini series on it, made my day

  • @mortuos557
    @mortuos557 6 лет назад +159

    Complete reversibility simply carnot be done...

  • @kelvinkang5109
    @kelvinkang5109 6 лет назад +40

    Love your videos, but the example with the reversible two bricks + piston is not very clear.
    Some numbers plugged in would be helpful, so that we can see that breaking it into smaller pieces reduces the overall work :)

    • @pranavkulkarni1414
      @pranavkulkarni1414 5 лет назад +2

      @@will123134 oh I thought you lift the tiny piece of brick off the Piston and leave it beside it's new height. Then there will be no work done during compression.

    • @krispbreadd
      @krispbreadd 4 года назад +32

      This is a late reply, but for anyone watching these videos really late like me, I thought I’d put an explanation in with the numbers. Previously, she said that Work = Force times Distance, and this is needed to understand the rest of the explanation. Let’s assume that the piston is 1 foot high, that the brick weighs one pound, and that the piston is sitting on a table. After taking the brick off of the piston and putting it on the table, the piston rises to its full height of 1 foot. To put the brick back on the piston, you’d need to exert 1 pound of force over 1 foot, which (according to the equation I said above) means that you’d use 1 unit of work to get the brick back onto the piston ( 1 pound times 1 foot = 1 unit of work ). If you instead break the brick in half, when you take the first half off and put it on the floor, the piston extends to half of a foot. When you take the other half off and leave it at the height of half a foot, it extends to the full foot. To put the weight back on, you would first take the higher half-brick and put it on the piston, exerting 1/2 a pound of force over 1/2 of a foot (since it’s already halfway up). This would exert 1/4 of a unit of work ( 1/2 a pound times 1/2 a foot = 1/4 of a unit of work). You would then take the half-brick that’s on the table and put it on the piston, exerting 1/2 a pound of force over 1/2 a foot (since the piston is halfway down thanks to the other brick). This means you’d exert another 1/4 unit of work (1/2 a pound times 1/2 a foot = 1/4 unit of work). In total, you would have exerted 2/4 units of work, or 1/2 a unit of work compared to the 1 unit of work exerted when you lift the whole brick the whole way up. Hope this helps!

    • @rokaszvirblis5946
      @rokaszvirblis5946 4 года назад +1

      @@krispbreadd Amazing clarification!

    • @krispbreadd
      @krispbreadd 4 года назад

      Rokas Zvirblis (:

  • @helenal.vaquera373
    @helenal.vaquera373 6 лет назад +23

    You know it's gonna be a good day when Crash Course uploads a video

  • @LA-MJ
    @LA-MJ 6 лет назад +6

    Terms (un)used in this video: differential, integration. Colour me impressed

  • @JR-rk5dr
    @JR-rk5dr 4 года назад +3

    i found this a great warm up before reading my thermodynamics text book :) thanks

  • @kurtlindner
    @kurtlindner 6 лет назад +1

    New favorite episode in this CC.

  • @rider18287
    @rider18287 5 лет назад +5

    There's a small correction, work done on the system is -ve and work done by the system is +ve

  • @othmanalghamdi9615
    @othmanalghamdi9615 Год назад

    you made it very insternteing and fun to watch please keep up the good work!

  • @emreosmanoglu1228
    @emreosmanoglu1228 6 лет назад +18

    Reversibility is an important thermodynamic aspect of mechanical engineering. The term 2nd Law Efficiency defines the efficiency of any machine with respect to reversibility. As mentioned in the video, there will always be some irreversibilities (theoretically there could be no 100% efficiency, also in pratice it wasn't achieved). In the video, efficiency is defined very cruedly since there are various types of efficiencies (one mentioned above, thermal efficiency is another major one). It is sad to see that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics didn't mentioned in the video since it is very important for the reversibility.

  • @mikey10006
    @mikey10006 6 лет назад +1

    This has been my favourite video out of the series so far woohoo! The mechanical/electrical engineering ones were good too tho

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie6940 6 лет назад +1

    My favorite subject... Thermodynamics, heat and other energy transfers, and fluid dynamics

  • @SunriseFireberry
    @SunriseFireberry 6 лет назад +52

    Reverse engineering? Now there's an idea.

    • @noticias6111
      @noticias6111 6 лет назад

      What was brought up in this video was not about that?. I do not know.

    • @Mayordomo32
      @Mayordomo32 5 лет назад +3

      Is that like reverse racism?

  • @engibear6392
    @engibear6392 6 лет назад +19

    *I hope this series has time to get into some concrete examples (both figuratively and literally). So far it's all been very high-level and conceptual, and even then, I'm not sure the law of conservation was really done justice. Input/output balance concepts are super applicable to pretty much everyone's daily life.*

  • @daemon1849
    @daemon1849 6 лет назад +10

    I like this show, the host does an amazing job

  • @ioan_jivan
    @ioan_jivan 6 лет назад +2

    The brick problem was awseome :D

  • @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266
    @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266 4 года назад

    Amazing explanation.

  • @mhtsaklas
    @mhtsaklas 6 лет назад

    That office space reference, you're the best thought bubble.

  • @12388696
    @12388696 8 месяцев назад

    Nice explanation, indeed

  • @lightyears6580
    @lightyears6580 6 лет назад +3

    Favorite question of my chemistry teacher .....difference between irreversible and reversible processes.

  • @calixdazeroth1422
    @calixdazeroth1422 6 лет назад

    that was enlightening

  • @kinfemichaelmelaku2280
    @kinfemichaelmelaku2280 4 года назад

    It was helpful thankyou

  • @Saffron194
    @Saffron194 10 месяцев назад

    I like true way she explained and loved her accent as well 😊

  • @ronaldochigerwe9610
    @ronaldochigerwe9610 4 года назад +1

    loooved this video, so helpful....and if l may ask @CrashCourse, which software did you use for the brick and cylinder animation

  • @pratikshagwalwanshi8676
    @pratikshagwalwanshi8676 6 лет назад

    I would request you to make videos about turbines, pumps and fluid mechanics and dynamics

  • @gigigggigi
    @gigigggigi 6 лет назад +4

    tbh i feel like teaching a music theory course in this way would be very cool and i bet people would watch.

  • @minkijeong8156
    @minkijeong8156 5 лет назад

    Very intersting

  • @hiteshgupta8474
    @hiteshgupta8474 6 лет назад +6

    I keep a record of days with these videos😂

  • @4-thermalstatistical352
    @4-thermalstatistical352 Год назад

    Nice

  • @themac9677
    @themac9677 6 лет назад +7

    I'm sad that you guys skipped aerospace engineering! I guess you're saving the best for last!

  • @Lucky10279
    @Lucky10279 6 лет назад +1

    Is infinitesimal calculus useful in figuring out how to make a process as reversible as possible?

  • @madladdan
    @madladdan 4 года назад

    Surely breaking the brick in two and lifting it a smaller distance twice is the same as lifting a whole brick the full distance? The weights add up to the total weight. Thus the half forces add up to the total force. The distances lifted also add up to the full distance lifted.

  • @garlicblink871
    @garlicblink871 6 лет назад +20

    THE MINI RUPAUL IN THE DRAG RACE CAR IM SNATCHED

  • @LelouchVelvet
    @LelouchVelvet 6 лет назад

    So engineering is like alchemy but cooler? Nice.

  • @mbrq1196
    @mbrq1196 6 лет назад +1

    i am waiting

  • @dan1204hc
    @dan1204hc 5 лет назад

    This is basics for Thermodynamics in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.

  • @Kaldorey
    @Kaldorey 6 лет назад +2

    For car engine efficiency, you could also have the example of cars with Internal Combustion Engine having an efficiency of 17-21% out of gasoline, while Electric Vehicles having an efficiency of 59%-62% out of the grid.
    Yay, go electric vehicles !

  • @saphirbvb6862
    @saphirbvb6862 4 года назад

    As far as I understood, can we consider nuclear reactors as the closest processes to reversibility?

  • @ameenmuhammed5592
    @ameenmuhammed5592 5 лет назад

    thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

  • @abdulbaitsdehanapadmaswast4567
    @abdulbaitsdehanapadmaswast4567 4 года назад +3

    I love to see the presenter a lot! She's wow

  • @dylanandresjimenezandino7440
    @dylanandresjimenezandino7440 6 лет назад +3

    I liked the video

  • @gregoryspoto929
    @gregoryspoto929 6 лет назад

    Flashbacks to Thermodynamics oh geez!

  • @onetwo4833
    @onetwo4833 4 года назад

    Looks behind myself for backing truck at the end of each video lol..

  • @studiorose11
    @studiorose11 5 лет назад

    What if when the piston goes down to a measured level the sand falls out areas in the side.

  • @AsphaltYt-4
    @AsphaltYt-4 8 месяцев назад

    Superr

  • @m33ks
    @m33ks 6 лет назад +5

    I am no engineer and maybe I have no idea what I am talking about but I feel like the example was a bit off. Ultimately I feel like you exchanging one work for another. Now instead of the weight, you have to move the massive volume of infinitely tiny pieces of brick and the Piston is doing the same action with the tiny pieces as it was with the whole brick. You put the brick or tiny piece on the Piston, it goes down, you take it off and it goes up. Am I just missing a key point to the example? Also don't get me wrong, not trying to give her a hard time also. She is doing a far better job at this then I prob would.

    • @cybro8925
      @cybro8925 6 лет назад +3

      I think It's because that whole mass doesn't have to move the same distance. Each part is then able to move only the required amount which requires less work. It's an unrealistic example, but an example still.

    • @m33ks
      @m33ks 6 лет назад

      Just watched it again, I think you are right. Thank you

    • @AthAthanasius
      @AthAthanasius 6 лет назад +1

      Indeed the small pieces of brick still have to be moved sideways overall (perhaps some up and down motion too, they were phasing through the cylinder wall in the animations!). This requires accelerating and then decelerating them, something that itself will incur losses in any real system.
      And the whole example was skewed, because why not have the whole brick only lifted up to a platform at the maximum height of the cylinder platform, rather than all the way down to the ground and back up again ? To match this part the half bricks would have needed to be placed on the ground as well.

  • @trevorzauner6670
    @trevorzauner6670 5 лет назад

    What's with the "Hamilton" bystander at 0:08? Anyone understand that?

  • @augustuscaeser8939
    @augustuscaeser8939 6 лет назад

    can you please make a course on game theory

  • @sniperking2009
    @sniperking2009 5 лет назад

    Ma'am work done by the system on surrounding is +ve. As ball expanded it has done work on the surrounding. How come the work is negative then ?

    • @garekbushnell4763
      @garekbushnell4763 5 лет назад

      Hello, Ashwin. The convention in the US (and perhaps the British share this convention) is to consider work done to the system as positive and work done by the system as negative. I agree that it is a valid choice to switch them, and have work done by system be positive. One way or another may be picked, and the important thing is to be consistent in your choice.

  • @mba2ceo
    @mba2ceo 6 лет назад

    what happens if U use a LEVELER ?

  • @rsiraistlin2473
    @rsiraistlin2473 6 лет назад +36

    Shaft work...
    Snickers....

  • @polarisukyc1204
    @polarisukyc1204 4 года назад

    Was that hank green getting a suntan

  • @Poorgeniu5
    @Poorgeniu5 6 лет назад +13

    Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow.
    Yep, that essentially how piston engines works!

  • @bosslevel9992
    @bosslevel9992 6 лет назад

    ya'll are fast

  • @VitruvianSasquatch
    @VitruvianSasquatch 6 лет назад

    If only there was a universally accepted convention for positive/negative work...

  • @melonlord1414
    @melonlord1414 6 лет назад +9

    I'm not so sure about the piston as example for irreversiblity.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 5 лет назад

      me too, isn't a controlled expand example of reversible process?

    • @julioramirez8069
      @julioramirez8069 5 лет назад +1

      I don't like it either, the best explanation would be throughout entropy increasing but I guess infinite amount of reversible processes is the simplest explanation

    • @toniaa-y3559
      @toniaa-y3559 5 лет назад

      I commented because of 'Melon Lord' and the toph display pic tbh

  • @xXxFaLLeNxShaDoWxXx
    @xXxFaLLeNxShaDoWxXx 6 лет назад +4

    Crash course thermo?

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX 6 лет назад

    I wonder whether a bomb would be considered reversible or irreversible... I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

  • @cybro8925
    @cybro8925 6 лет назад

    W = Fd has a lowercase 'd'

  • @selbalamir
    @selbalamir 4 года назад

    lets ignore the violation in the brick example

  • @bestcakesdesign
    @bestcakesdesign 4 года назад

    Why we study reversible process

  • @alext9067
    @alext9067 6 лет назад

    Couldn't find anyone easier to understand than this?

    • @qpSubZeroqp
      @qpSubZeroqp 6 лет назад +4

      alex tworkowski she's so clear and concise. How are you having an issue?

    • @alext9067
      @alext9067 6 лет назад +1

      I don't agree.

    • @betht840
      @betht840 4 года назад

      listen to it repeatedly(2 or 3 times or as much as you need) ..you'll eventually get it.

  • @kraftytactician5529
    @kraftytactician5529 6 лет назад

    I guess life is some trade-off that you can't escape from. The more output you want in favor requires more work, and more work is out of your favor so you slack off..

  • @Dasepho
    @Dasepho 6 лет назад +2

    I don't think the word "engineering" comes from "engine" at all. It originally comes from "ingenuer" or something like that, the same root as"ingenuity", meaning "one who creates new ideas"

    • @aotq
      @aotq 6 лет назад +2

      ingenium>engine>engineer(machine/engine operator)>engineering(the discipline)

  • @Dluv021
    @Dluv021 5 лет назад

    Half-a-brick whole brick aha

  • @mongyunkim749
    @mongyunkim749 5 лет назад

    Is it physics ?

  • @6alecapristrudel
    @6alecapristrudel 6 лет назад +1

    Holy mother Entropy needs to be paid what she's owed.

  • @alpuysal8567
    @alpuysal8567 4 года назад +1

    It is kinda a good speech of you but you are investigating the term work as a scientist approach. Engineers assume the work is positive when the system does work. Please consider this detailed but important info

  • @s3cr3tpassword
    @s3cr3tpassword 6 лет назад +7

    i'll be doing some shaft work tonight

    • @rparl
      @rparl 6 лет назад +1

      s3cr3tpassword You wish.

  • @trappakappa8950
    @trappakappa8950 4 года назад

    Yo wassup

  • @mohamedmagdy-xu2yu
    @mohamedmagdy-xu2yu 6 лет назад

    yes that is a truth how ever i am not satisfied about the currant day machines turbine engines etta = 45% petrol engines = 35% diesel engines = varies between 35 to 45% old school engines max 25% even electrical motors = 85% you might want to cover perpetual motion machines

  • @onlycontact6070
    @onlycontact6070 6 лет назад +2

    Cryptobiosis should be a major CRISPR gene editing idea. Eye wonder what would happen if OM have them live inside us. The Tardigrade could help us last Elon Musk’s next plan with what he’s been posting lately.🖖🏿🐘🔊

    • @dustinjames1268
      @dustinjames1268 6 лет назад

      Tardigrades are actually terrible at survival.
      They're resistant to everything... except what would actually kill them
      They can survive in space... except they can't
      There is no good argument for them being good at their only job - to live

  • @abhaysharma9317
    @abhaysharma9317 6 лет назад

    Doesn't it seems to like the resting period of a piston has arrived when pistons will sit on a back of a garage and see the fast pacing sexy electric motor rotating at that high RPM that the piston have never thought of. Miserable Piston.

    • @abhaysharma9317
      @abhaysharma9317 6 лет назад

      I meant we are done with the combustion engine car, No combustion engine car no use of piston and electric cars have just motors to create torque.

  • @niv6924
    @niv6924 4 года назад

    MKBHD’s secret sister

  • @andyroidify
    @andyroidify 6 лет назад +2

    Shaft work lol

  • @magzieforfunj187
    @magzieforfunj187 6 лет назад +9

    Engineering is not named after what we call engines today. Siege weapons were called engines before steam engines existed and were built by engineers.

  • @w.e.4277
    @w.e.4277 6 лет назад

    Or as Elon Musk would put it: reusability

  • @peter4210
    @peter4210 6 лет назад

    Why not use a electrical engine, They are reversible, and could have been used for a example instead of the brick on a piston

    • @jakobkrey9789
      @jakobkrey9789 6 лет назад

      King Peter they arent 100% reversible

    • @peter4210
      @peter4210 6 лет назад +1

      Jakobmaximus like anything, but it's a better example then a combustion engine that cant be reversed at all.
      A other alternative could be a sterling engine wich when run in revers with a other engine it turns into a heat pump instead of using departure difference to turn a wheel

  • @bandibabyrani862
    @bandibabyrani862 4 года назад

    Please say slowly

  • @mach2570
    @mach2570 6 лет назад

    Work is the force multiplied by the displacement ,not the distance.

  • @TheVexinator
    @TheVexinator 6 лет назад

    Why is the CrashCourse audio team putting beeping noises into so many videos lately? Please stop.

  • @jesterkids2246
    @jesterkids2246 6 лет назад

    8 veiws??

  • @empi1972gtv
    @empi1972gtv 6 лет назад +1

    Are you single? Asking for a friend.

  • @JerryRMartin
    @JerryRMartin 6 лет назад +3

    Sand, friction, and metal doesn't mix. I understand the explanation, but the material used just isn't compatible for real life production.

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 6 лет назад +2

      no way!!

    • @matthewcapobianco9332
      @matthewcapobianco9332 6 лет назад +2

      Its the only way to teach calculus to lay people.

    • @matthewclements6603
      @matthewclements6603 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks for clearing up that the thing she said isn’t possible, is in fact, not possible.

    • @cookycamy101
      @cookycamy101 6 лет назад +3

      She's explaining a concept, bro, not a real life application.

    • @JerryRMartin
      @JerryRMartin 6 лет назад

      Yeah. I understand. I just prefer filing content in my brain as it's applied in real life. Thanks for being respectful in your response. :)

  • @annoloki
    @annoloki 6 лет назад +1

    Engineering is filthy

  • @starvingboyinafrica9463
    @starvingboyinafrica9463 6 лет назад

    I thought this was going to be about sunburns from the thumbnail >:(

    • @Tuckems
      @Tuckems 5 лет назад

      Starving Boy In Africa If you can have a Mobile Phone/Computer to comment on here how do you not have food? How are you on yt? Just use the wifi to order a pizza on papa johns or something

  • @uzairmehran8542
    @uzairmehran8542 6 лет назад

    Omg lots of sss ss sss ss ssss

  • @Scorpionwacom
    @Scorpionwacom 6 лет назад

    Dislike for washed out colours in the video.

  • @rparl
    @rparl 6 лет назад

    How about useless work, where a politician lies to assure his future power?
    Edit: Sorry. I'm upset about what's happening these days.

    • @salacommander2674
      @salacommander2674 6 лет назад +5

      Hate to break it to yah, but it's been like that since the beginning of society. It's not just a 'now' problem, it's a humanity problem.

  • @Tinman_GG
    @Tinman_GG 6 лет назад +3

    Click bait hottie engineer. Such bore , such cute, very accent

  • @ChainsawDunDeez
    @ChainsawDunDeez 6 лет назад +2

    Speaking about heat...the presenter is hot... But I'm a sucker for tan skinned brunettes... The cute accent is just a bonus...