The special composition question (SCQ), which asks under conditions objects compose a further object, establishes central debate in modern metaphysics. Recent successes of inductive metaphysics, studies the implications natural sciences for metaphysical problems, suggest that insights into SCQ can be gained by investigating physics composite systems. In this work, I show minus first law thermod...

Thermodynamic length is a path function that generalizes the notion of length to the surface of thermodynamic states. Here, we show how to measure thermodynamic length in far-from-equilibrium experiments using the work fluctuation relations. For these microscopic systems, it proves necessary to define the thermodynamic length in terms of the Fisher information. Consequently, the thermodynamic l...

Isothermal mutual diffusion coefficients (D) have been measured for binary aqueous solutions of sodium alkylsulfonates at 25 degrees C. The diffusion coefficient values drop as the concentration of micelles in the system increases. As the length of the hydrocarbon chain increases, the observed drop in D becomes increasingly sharp and shifts to lower concentrations. When the micellization proces...

We consider coupled map lattices of hyperbolic type, i.e., chains of weakly interacting hyperbolic sets (attractors) over multi-dimensional lattices. We describe thermodynamic formalism of the underlying spin lattice system and then prove existence, uniqueness, mixing properties, and exponential decay of correlations of equilibrium measures for a class of Holder continuous potential functions ...

First-stage mercury oxidation reactions typical of coal combustion flue gases were investigated. The present study is a determination of the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the bimolecular reactions, Hg + Cl(2) <--> HgCl + Cl, Hg + HCl <--> HgCl + H, and Hg + HOCl <--> HgCl + OH, at the B3LYP/RCEP60 VDZ level of theory over a temperature range of 298.15 to 2000 K at atmospheric pressure...

It is often incorrectly assumed that the number of microstates Ω(E, V, N, ...) available to an isolated system can have arbitrary dependence on the extensive variables E, V, N, ... However, this is not the case for systems which can, in principle, reach thermodynamic equilibrium since restrictions arise from the underlying equilibrium statistical mechanic axioms of independence and a priori equ...

The interaction of Congo Red CR with a series of Alkyltrimethylamoniumbromide CnTAB, N-hexadecylpyridinium bromide CPB and N-hexadecylpyridinium CPC were investigated using conductometry technique. It was observed that the formation of dye-surfactant ion pairs takes place at surfactant concentration far below the critical micelle concentration of the individual surfactants. Aggregation was refl...

Dipole Moments, Diazoketones, Thermodynamic, Dielectric Measurements The electric dipole moments of acetyldiazomethane (MeCOCHN2) and 1-acetyl-1-diazoethane (MeCOCMeN2) between 10 and 70 °C have been measured. Using appropriate group and bond moments, the concentrations of the two rotamers present in each have been calculated and, hence, the equilibrium constant for the cis trans equilibrium at...