PHL271H1 Lecture Notes - Legal Positivism, Thought Experiment, Judicial Activism

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Extra readings: a) the oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law, b)the. Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy and c) ojls 2004 hart"s postscript by dworkin. Last class we looked at the negative side of harts project. He tried to rehabilitate legal positivism by discarding what he though was dispensable (command theory) and explaining what he thought was positive. The command theory of law in austin"s view gave a positive explanation of how law could be. We now need some other account of what makes law law like . In harts opinion, law as the union of primary and secondary rules. Begins with a thought experiment in order to show why a legal system needs secondary rules. There is no legislature, courts, officials, or other authority. Nor are there rules about how these rules should be enforced or applied. No authority vested in interpretations or applications of these rules.

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5EM - Thermodynamics
September 2010
1 The T-S diagram
The temperature-entropy diagram is an alternative to the well knownpressure-
volume diagram. Before using it to analyze different vapor cycles,we need
to understand it properly.
1. Plot the following transformations for ideal gases in a T-Sdiagram
(a) Isothermal expansion
(b) Isobaric expansion
(c) Isometric heating
(d) Reversible adiabatic expansion
(e) Irreversible adiabatic expansion
2. Repeat the last question, but this time do it for a realsubstance,
starting in the compressed liquid1 region and ending in thesuperheated
region, when possible. Indicate the boundaries of eachregion.
3. We know that under certain circumstances the area under theplot
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What does it represent in this case? Under what assumptions isyour
answer true? Compare examples 6.1 and 6.2.
2 Thermal machines
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these machines have a limited efficiency which, in the two-sourcesmodel, is
obtained by Carnotâs cycle.
(Compressed liquid is sometimes also called subcooled liquid)
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temperatures of the cycle should be within the sources temperaturesfor a
finite heat flow to exist.
1. Given the temperature of the sources, draw the cycle accordingto the
named limitation.
2. Show that this leads to lower efficiency than the theoreticallimit.
3. Assume that heat flow from/to the sources is proportional to thetem-
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Out of the several practical possibilities, Rankine cycle and itsvariations is
widely used, especially for electric power generation.
1. Draw the basic cycle in a T-S diagram and explain it.
2. What does the efficiency of the cycle depend on? Comparewith
Carnotâs.
3. What are the differences between the ideal cycle and the realone?
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After answering the previous questions solve the followingexercises from the
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