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This short paper is based on the author’s personal acquaintance with a number of practical problems requiring some grasp of thermodynamics - considered in its broader sense - and the failure of those engineers concerned with these problems to understand them correctly. In all cases the engineers had been university trained in thermodynamics and therefore a knoweldge of their misconceptions may be of interest to those who teach thermodynamics.
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Andrew, S.P.S. (1985). Thermodynamics, a God with Feet of Clay?. In: Lewins, J.D. (eds) Teaching Thermodynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2163-7_29
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