lowing corrected specification for the third operation: Let the piston be pushed down, till it readies a position E3F3, determined so as to fulfil the condition, that at the end of the fourth operation the primitive temperature S shall be reached:[1]
[During this operation the temperature of the contents of the cylinder is retained constantly at T°, and all the latent heat of the vapor which is condensed into water at the same temperature is given out to B.]
(4) The cylinder being removed from B, and placed on the impermeable stand, let the piston be pushed down from E3F3 to its original position EF.
[During this operation, the impermeable stand preventing any loss of heat, the temperature of the water and air must rise continually, till (since the quantity of heat evolved during the third operation was precisely equal to
- ↑ [Note of Nov. 5, 1881. Maxwell has simplified the correction by beginning the cycle with Carnot's second operation, and completing it through his third, fourth, and first operations, with his third operation nearly as follows:
let the piston be pushed down to any position E3F3;
then Carnot's fourth operation altered to the following:
let the piston be pushed down from E3F3 until the temperature reaches its primitive value S;
and lastly, Carnot's first operation altered to the following:
let the piston rise to its primitive position.]
