So the first step to doing that is I want to just generalize our results so far for a Carnot cycle.

第一步,首先来推广一下,卡诺循环的结果。

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Now, if we go back to our Carnot cycle which is a set of reversible paths, it's useful to compare this to what happens in an irreversible case.

如果回到卡诺循环,它是由一系列可逆过程组成，我们将它,和不可逆过程的情况相比较。

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And now we're going to specify, we're going to do a Carnot cycle for an ideal gas.

我们具体地指定一个卡诺循环，这是理想气体。

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And the cycle it's going to undertake is called a Carnot cycle, and it works the following way: we're going to do pressure volume work.

它的循环过程,叫做卡诺循环，过程如下：,这是个压强体积系统。

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