A simple example illustrating the application of thermodynamic extremum principles

Authors: Velasco S.¹; Fernández-Pineda C.²

Source: European Journal of Physics, Volume 23, Number 5, 2002 , pp. 501-511(11)

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Abstract:

A composite system consisting of two identical ideal gases separated by a movable, frictionless, diathermic piston is used to illustrate the application of different extremum principles in thermodynamics. The time evolution of the system from an initial constrained equilibrium state to the final equilibrium state is analysed by means of a very simple phenomenological model.

Language: English

Document Type: Miscellaneous

Affiliations: 1: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain 2: Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Publication date: 2002-01-01

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