A local nonequilibrium thermodynamics is constructed from microscopic particle statistical mechanics. Each thermodynamic quantity is based on a particle analog. Volume and temperature derivatives are represented by operators transforming these analogs. This procedure resolves the thermodynamic reversibility and recurrence paradoxes.
Book Details
- Country: US
- Published: 2002
- Publisher: Microanalytix
- Language: English
- Pages: 568
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