Further Remarks on the Second Law of Thermodynamics in General Relativity
β Scribed by Tolman R.C.
- Year
- 1928
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Scientific article / Stud. Hist. Philos. Mod. Phys., 2001, Vol. 32, No 3, pp. 305-394.<div class="bb-sep"></div>The aim of this article is to analyse the relation between the second law of thermodynamics and the so-called arrow of time. For this purpose, a number of different aspects in this arrow o
Article / In Β«Current Developments in Mathematics, 2001Β», International Press, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 89β130.<div class="bb-sep"></div>The essence of the second law of classical thermodynamics is the 'entropy principle' which asserts the existence of an additive and extensive entropy function, S, that
<div>Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire," along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, consisting mostly of statements couched in exact language. It represents a tribute to Car
Scientific article. β Online publishing, 2008. β 10 p.: ill.<div class="bb-sep"></div>A new statement of the second law of thermodynamics is given. The law leads almost effortlessly, for very general closed systems, to a definition of absolute entropy <em>S</em>, a demonstration that Ξ<em>S</em> > 0