Statistical dynamics: a stochastic approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by R. F. Streater

• Book ID: 127432917
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 1860940048

✦ Synopsis

How to construct dynamical systems obeying the first and second laws of thermodynamics: mean energy is conserved, and entropy increases with time? The book answers this question for classical probability (Part I) and quantum probability (Part II). A novel feature is the introduction of heat particles which supply thermal noise and represent the kinetic energy of molecules. When applied to chemical reactions, the theory leads to a nonlinear reaction - diffusion equations exhibiting oscillations or convergence to equilibrium.