The question of negative temperatures in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.02.002zbMath1421.80003OpenAlexW2913161984MaRDI QIDQ2272832

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

zbMATH Keywords

microcanonical entropyKelvin-Planck and Clausius versions of the second lawthe Carathéodory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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