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A cup of coffee cools down in a room cooler than it.

but the reverse.. A cup of coffee heating up in a room cooler that it because of heat transfer from the air satisfies the first and violates the second.

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A violation of the first law of thermodynamics would involve creating or destroying energy. This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted from one form to another.

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There are no real processes that violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You could describe a process where a block of steel at 0 °C is placed on top of a block of steel of equal size at 400 °C and the cold steel drops to -10 °C while the hot block rises to 410 °C. That would satisfy the 1st law and violate the 2nd law - but experience tells us it will never, ever, ever happen.

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A violation of the first law of thermodynamics would be the creation or destruction of energy. There are no such examples known. Nuclear fusion or nuclear fission both produce energy by transforming matter (which by Einstein's theory of relativity, is concentrated energy).

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The second law of thermodynamics is known as a "law" because there are no known situations that would violate the second law of thermodynamics. If heat were to spontaneously move from a cold system to a warm system without any outside actions or if a gas were to spontaneously compress itself (like all the air in a room deciding to move to one corner, leaving the rest of the room as a vacuum) that would violate the second law. No one has ever observed either, nor have they ever observed any other violations of the law. A few con-artists and crackpots have claimed to have devices that violate the law, but none have actually demonstrated any real devices that work as claimed.

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The first law deals with conservation of energy

The second law deals with what forms that (conserved) energy may take

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It doesn't. there are no known counterexamples. The closest we have is the theoretical "Maxwell's Demon".

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