{"id":257350,"date":"2016-08-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=cca6d50b3a2936661603d3500af79684"},"modified":"2016-08-08T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:00:00","slug":"the-carnot-cycle-and-the-teaching-of-thermodynamics-a-historical-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=257350","title":{"rendered":"The Carnot cycle and the teaching of thermodynamics: a historical approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carnot cycle is a topic that is traditionally present in introductory physics courses dedicated<br \/>\nto the teaching of thermodynamics, playing an essential role in introducing the concept of Entropy<br \/>\nand the consequent formulation of the second Law. Its effective understanding and contribution to<br \/>\nthe development of thermodynamics is often hindered, however. Among other things, this is the result<br \/>\nof a pragmatic approach, which usually limits itself to presenting the isotherms and adiabatic<br \/>\ncurves in a P-V diagram and is totally disconnected from the historical fundamentals of Heat Theory.<br \/>\nThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the potential of an approach to the subject that recovers the<br \/>\nhistorical and social dimensions of scientific knowledge, and to promote reflections about the<br \/>\nnature of science (NOS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carnot cycle is a topic that is traditionally present in introductory physics courses dedicated<br \/>\nto the teaching of thermodynamics, playing an essential role in introducing the concept of Entropy<br \/>\nand the consequent formulation of the second Law. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}