Statistical analogues of thermodynamic extremum principles

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/aaafdczbMath1400.80020OpenAlexW2791683510MaRDI QIDQ4571715

John D. Ramshaw

Publication date: 29 June 2018

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaafdc

zbMATH Keywords

free energymaximum entropyopen systemsclosed systemsenthalpycanonicalgrand canonicalisolated systemsthermodynamic extremum principleminimum Helmholtz free energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Variational methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M30)

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