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Which physicist believed that engine efficiency was the key that could help France win the Napoleonic Wars?

  • Rudolf Diesel
  • Sadi Carnot (correct)
  • Lord Kelvin
  • Rudolf Clausius
  • Who was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics?

  • Sadi Carnot
  • Lord Kelvin (correct)
  • Rudolf Clausius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Who restated Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle?

  • Sadi Carnot
  • Lord Kelvin
  • Rudolf Clausius (correct)
  • James Joule
  • In what year did German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Clausius publish his most important paper, 'On the Moving Force of Heat'?

    <p>1850</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the main focus of thermodynamics historically?

    <p>Increasing the efficiency of early steam engines</p> Signup and view all the answers

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