Kelvin's statement of the second law of thermodynamics

Kelvin's statement of the second law of thermodynamics

[′kel·vənz ′stāt·mənt əvthə ′sek·ənd ‚lȯ əv ‚thər·mō·dī′nam·iks] (thermodynamics) The statement that it is not possible that, at the end of a cycle of changes, heat has been extracted from a reservoir and an equal amount of work has been produced without producing some other effect.