Question 4
12.5 pts
Which of the following would be a violation of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics?
A spoon has been sitting in a bowl of day-old soup that has been left out on
the counter all night long. The counter, the bowl, and the soup are all 20
degrees C, but the spoon is 25 degrees C.
You vigorously stir some sweetened ice tea, and the dissoved sugar re-
crystallizes out of the tea.
A tiny sample of gas you have stored in a magnetic container is measured to
have only 25 J of thermal energy remaining. Using laser cooling (yes, that's a
real thing!) you transfer the last 25 J out of the gas, bringing it's temperature
down to 0 K.
A spray of gasoline vapor is ignited in the piston of an internal combustion
engin. The combusting gas releases a total of 1,750 J of thermal energy, and
does 2,250 J of mechanical work on the piston.