What is the difference between heat and work?

What is the difference between heat and work?

1 February, 2022

Ans. They are:

  • The entropy statement of the second law prohibits the heat to be entirely converted into work, but it completely allows the work to be transformed into heat. The laws of entropy will be violated if heat is fully transformed into work. The Carnot efficiency has given the maximum amount of work one can attain from heat.
  • Energy correlated with the random motion of particles is known as heat,  whereas the energy of organised motion in one direction is known as work.