the thermodynamic of the known and very effective catalytic system, hydrogen peroxide (h2o2) and methyltrioxorhenium (mto) is studied in different solvents using uv-visible spectroscopic method. the thermodynamic parameters (δg, δh and δs) for two equilibrium reactions, mto + h2o2 ⇌ a + h2o and a + h2o2 ⇌ b.h2o (a, [mere(o)2(o2)]; b.h2o, [mere(oh2)(o)(o2)2]), are determined. the obtained free e...

A new model of non-equilibrium thermodynamic states has been investigated on the basis of the fact that all thermodynamic variables can be derived from partition functions. We have thus attempted to define partition functions for non-equilibrium conditions by introducing the concept of pseudo-temperature distributions. These pseudo-temperatures are configurational in origin and distinct from ki...

2 Thermodynamics 4 2.1 The Foundations of Thermodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Thermodynamic Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 The Conditions for Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 The Equations of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5 Thermodynamic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.6 Ther...

The complexes between C20 and C2 X4 , C2 X2 (X = H, F, Cl, Br) have been studied theoretically at the B3LYP/6-311G (d,p) level. The calculations include the optimized geometries, the interaction energies, aromaticity and thermodynamic. The interaction energies ranging from -60 to -101 kcal/mol and being ordered as: X = F> Cl > Br. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis has been performed on all ge...

A new method of successive construction of a solution is developed for problems of strongly nonequilibrium Boltzmann kinetics beyond normal solutions. Firstly, the method provides dynamic equations for any manifold of distributions where one looks for an approximate solution. Secondly, it gives a successive procedure of obtaining corrections to these approximations. The method requires neither ...

The geometric study of thermodynamics began with Gibbs’s reformulation of the theory in terms of equilibrium states rather than processes [1]. The surface of the set of equilibrium states was Gibbs’s primary object of study and foreshadowed much of the modern differential geometric theory manifolds. Gibbs surfaces is where the geometric theory stood when I became a graduate student. The story t...

We report on time-resolved measurements of thermodynamic fluctuations in the number of particles in a dilute Fermi gas. The gas is comprised of thermal quasiparticles, confined in a superconducting Al box by large-gap Ta leads. The average number of quasiparticles is about 10 5. This number fluctuates due to the quasiparticle generation and recombination processes. The number is measured from t...

The Witt construction describes a functor from the category of Rings to the category of characteristic 0 rings. It is uniquely determined by a few associativity constraints which do not depend on the types of the variables considered, in other words, by integer polynomials. This universality allowed Alain Connes and Caterina Consani to devise an analogue of the Witt ring for characteristic one,...

We suggest that spontaneous eternal inflation can provide a natural explanation for the thermodynamic arrow of time, and discuss the underlying assumptions and consequences of this view. In the absence of inflation, we argue that systems coupled to gravity usually evolve asymptotically to the vacuum, which is the only natural state in a thermodynamic sense. In the presence of a small positive v...

Title of dissertation: THERMODYNAMICS, REVERSIBILTY AND JAYNES’ APPROACH TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS Daniel N. Parker, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeffrey Bub Department of Philosophy This dissertation contests David Albert’s recent arguments that the proposition that the universe began in a particularly low entropy state (the “past hypothesis”) is necessary and ...