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Explain the need for second law of thermodynamics.

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The following questions lead to the need of second law of thermodynamics.
i) Why cannot heat flow from a body at lower temperature to a body at higher temperature ?
il) Heat engine converts heat into work, but why efficiency of engine is less than one ?
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