The impossible process: Thermodynamic reversibility

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.08.001zbMath1348.80002OpenAlexW2509466046MaRDI QIDQ333947

John D. Norton

Publication date: 31 October 2016

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/12341/1/Reversible.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

entropythermodynamicsequilibriumreversible process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Physics (00A79)

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