Advertising claims sometimes state that adding something mechanical to a car's engine will allow it to recover 100 percent of th
e energy that comes from burning gasoline. You should be skeptical of such claims because they violate the A. first law of thermodynamics.
B. activation energy requirements of all chemical reactions.
C. second law of thermodynamics.D. law of conservation of matter
The second law of thermodynamics deals with interconversion of energy from one form to another. Although energy can be converted from one form to another, this conversion is never 100% efficient because energy is lost in certain ways such as through heat. In a combustion engine, it is not possible to recover the energy from the gasoline 100% since energy must be lost along the way via such means as heat losses. Hence I will be skeptical about such an advert.
