Can the second law be compatible with time reversal invariant dynamics?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.06.001zbMath1294.82018OpenAlexW2022214526MaRDI QIDQ407338

Leah Henderson

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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/10698/1/SecLaw.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

second law of thermodynamicstime symmetrythermodynamic irreversibilityLieb and Yngvasontime reversal invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35) Physics (00A79)

Related Items (2)

In search of time lost: asymmetry of time and irreversibility in natural processes ⋮ The impossible process: Thermodynamic reversibility

Cites Work

• The origins of time-asymmetry in thermodynamics: the minus first law
• Bluff your way in the second law of thermodynamics
• The physics and mathematics of the second law of thermodynamics
• Axiomatic thermodynamics and extensive measurement
• Energy and entropy as real morphisms for addition and order
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item

This page was built for publication: Can the second law be compatible with time reversal invariant dynamics?