arXiv Open Access 2000

A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Elliott H. Lieb Jakob Yngvason

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This paper is a non-technical, informal presentation of our theory of the second law of thermodynamics as a law that is independent of statistical mechanics and that is derivable solely from certain simple assumptions about adiabatic processes for macroscopic systems. It is not necessary to assume a-priori concepts such as "heat", "hot and cold", "temperature". These are derivable from entropy, whose existence we derive from the basic assumptions. See cond-mat/9708200 and math-ph/9805005.

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Elliott H. Lieb

Jakob Yngvason

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Lieb, E.H., Yngvason, J. (2000). A Fresh Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0003028

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Tahun Terbit: 2000
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓