The impossible process: Thermodynamic reversibility
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The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility
Standard descriptions of thermodynamically reversible processes attribute contradictory properties to them: they are in equilibrium yet still change their state. Or they are comprised of non-equilibrium states that are so close to equilibrium that the difference does not matter. One cannot have states that both change and no not change at the same time. In place of this internally contradictory...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1355-2198
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.08.001