The Gibbs Fundamental Relation as a Tool for Relativity
When relativistic physics is lectured on, interest is focused on the behavior of mechanical and electromagnetic quantities during a reference frame change. However, not only mechanical and electromagnetic quantities transform during a reference frame change; thermodynamic and chemical quantities do...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/1/74 |
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| Summary: | When relativistic physics is lectured on, interest is focused on the behavior of mechanical and electromagnetic quantities during a reference frame change. However, not only mechanical and electromagnetic quantities transform during a reference frame change; thermodynamic and chemical quantities do too. We will study the transformations of temperature and chemical potential, show how to obtain the corresponding transformation equations with little effort, and exploit the fact that the energy conjugate extensive quantities, namely entropy and amount of substance, are Lorentz-invariant. |
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| ISSN: | 1099-4300 |