The question of negative temperatures in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2019.02.002MaRDI QIDQ2272832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David A. Lavis

Publication date 16 September 2019

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/15735/1/2019%20Lavis.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

Kelvin-Planck and Clausius versions of the second lawmicrocanonical entropythe Carathéodory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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