Perpetual Motion: Is it Possible?

  • Context: Undergrad 
  • Thread starter Thread starter PFuser1232
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Motion Perpetual motion
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
2 replies · 2K views
PFuser1232
Messages
479
Reaction score
20
According to the second law of thermodynamics, perpetual motion is impossible, right?
But how do gas molecules in a closed container move perpetually?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Its really not a closed system. The containers walls are made of atoms/molecules that are in motion as well and outside the system atoms/molecules are in motion.
 
MohammedRady97 said:
According to the second law of thermodynamics, perpetual motion is impossible, right?
But how do gas molecules in a closed container move perpetually?
According to the second law of thermodynamics perpetual motion machines are impossible.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: 1 person