The principles of thermodynamics are so well established, both theoretically and experimentally, that proposals for perpetual motion machines are universally dismissed by physicists. Any proposed perpetual motion design offers a potentially instructive challenge to physicists: one is certain that it cannot work, so one must explain how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise depends on the subtlety of the proposal; the best ones tend to arise from physicists' own thought experiments and often shed light upon certain aspects of physics.
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With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device.
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Any device powered by changes in air pressure, such Figura some clocks (Cox's timepiece, Beverly Clock). The motion leeches energy from moving air which in turn gained its energy from being acted on.
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These machines have a source of energy, albeit one which is not readily apparent, so that they only seem to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
In any isolated system, one cannot create new energy (law of conservation of energy). As a result, the thermal efficiency—the produced work power divided by the input heating power—cannot be greater than one.
To extract work from heat, thus producing a perpetual motion machine of the second kind, the most common approach (dating here back at least to Maxwell's demon) is unidirectionality. Only molecules moving fast enough and in the right direction are allowed through the demon's trap door. In a Brownian ratchet, forces tending to turn the ratchet one way are able to do so while forces in the other direction are not. A diode in a heat bath allows through currents in one direction and not the other.
[23] The symmetry which is equivalent to conservation of energy is the time invariance of physical laws. Therefore, if the laws of physics do not change with time, then the conservation of energy follows. For energy conservation to be violated to allow perpetual motion would require that the foundations of physics would change.[24]
Hollis Williams is a postdoctoral researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is interested in various aspects of physics education and theoretical physics and has published articles on fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, and particle physics.
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