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The 16 pages that link to Carnot's theorem, each with the reason it gives.

• Second law of thermodynamicsRelated: It turns the second law into a precise upper bound on engine efficiency.

• Carnot cycleRelated: It generalizes the cycle's efficiency limit to all engines using the same reservoir temperatures.

• Thermal efficiencyRelated: It sets a universal ceiling on thermal efficiency from the reservoirs' temperatures.

• Reversible processRelated: It uses reversibility to establish the greatest possible efficiency for a specified pair of reservoir temperatures.

• Thermodynamic cycleRelated: It sets an upper bound on the efficiency of every heat-engine cycle.

• Thermodynamic temperatureRelated: It shows why reservoir temperature ratios can be defined without specifying a working substance.

• Heat engineRelated: It states the universal ceiling against which practical heat engines are compared.

• Irreversible processRelated: It quantifies the performance limit imposed by irreversible operation.

• Clausius theoremRelated: It follows from applying the cyclic inequality to competing engines.

• Ericsson cycleRelated: It explains why the reversible Ericsson cycle's efficiency cannot surpass Carnot's.

• Bottema's theoremRelated: It is a closely related concurrency result for side-based perpendicular constructions.

• Carnot heat engineRelated: It makes the ideal engine a benchmark independent of its working substance.

• Japanese theoremRelated: It illustrates a neighboring style of circle geometry built from sums associated with triangle parts.