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The 32 pages that link to Carnot cycle, each with the reason it gives.

• ThermodynamicsBroader topic: It establishes the maximum efficiency possible for a heat engine operating between fixed temperatures.

• EntropyBroader topic: Its efficiency limit follows from entropy balance between hot and cold reservoirs.

• Second law of thermodynamicsBroader topic: It represents the limiting cycle used to derive maximum possible efficiency.

• Thermal efficiencyBroader topic: It provides the maximum efficiency possible for engines operating between fixed reservoir temperatures.

• Reversible processBroader topic: It demonstrates how reversible steps set the upper efficiency limit for engines operating between two temperatures.

• Thermodynamic cycleBroader topic: It provides the maximum efficiency possible between two fixed-temperature reservoirs.

• Heat engineBroader topic: It provides the maximum efficiency possible between two fixed-temperature reservoirs.

• Work (thermodynamics)Broader topic: It establishes the maximum work output for engines operating between fixed-temperature reservoirs.

• Carnot's theoremBroader topic: Its efficiency reaches the upper bound Carnot's theorem sets for engines between fixed reservoirs.

• Thermodynamic processBroader topic: It combines distinct paths into a benchmark cycle for heat-engine efficiency.

• Caloric theoryBroader topic: Carnot derived its efficiency using caloric flow between hot and cold reservoirs.

• Quasistatic processBroader topic: Its idealized legs are quasistatic, allowing reversible-engine efficiency to be calculated.

• Carnot heat engineBroader topic: The engine produces work by making its working substance traverse this reversible cycle.

• Laws of thermodynamicsBroader topic: It derives a universal engine-efficiency limit from the second law.

• Nicolas Léonard Sadi CarnotBroader topic: It formalizes the engine cycle Carnot used to compare the maximum efficiencies of heat engines.