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P-5 | Important Questions | Chemical Thermodynamics |

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The First Law of Thermodynamics, while establishing conservation of energy, has three key limitations: it cannot determine the direction of a process or whether it is spontaneous, it does not explain the direction of heat flow, and it cannot predict the maximum efficiency of a process. The Second Law addresses these limitations through two statements: the Kelvin-Planck statement, which states that it is impossible to construct a heat engine that converts heat completely into work in a cyclic process, and the Clausius statement, which states that heat cannot spontaneously flow from a cold body to a hot body. For reversible processes, the entropy change of the universe equals zero, while for spontaneous (irreversible) processes, the entropy change of the universe is always greater than zero.