Revisions of the Phenomenological and Statistical Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics [PDF]
EntropyThe status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, even in the 21st century, is not as certain as when Arthur Eddington wrote about it a hundred years ago.
Grzegorz Marcin Koczan, Roberto Zivieri
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A Symmetric Form of the Clausius Statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics [PDF]
EntropyBridgman once reflected on thermodynamics that the laws of thermodynamics were formulated in their present form by the great founders of thermodynamics, Kelvin and Clausius, before all the essential physical facts were in, and there has been no adequate ...
Ti-Wei Xue, Tian Zhao, Zeng-Yuan Guo
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Reasoning and Logical Proofs of the Fundamental Laws: "No Hope" for the Challengers of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 This comprehensive treatise is written for the special occasion of the author's 70th birthday. It presents his lifelong endeavors and reflections with original reasoning and re-interpretations of the most critical and misleading issues in thermodynamics;
Kostic M.
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A Special Relativistic Exploitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Its Non-Relativistic Limit. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 A thermodynamic process is a solution of the balance equations fulfilling the second law of thermodynamics. This implies restrictions on the constitutive relations. The most general way to exploit these restrictions is the method introduced by Liu.
Papenfuss C.
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The Hungry Daemon: Does an Energy-Harvesting Active Particle Have to Obey the Second Law of Thermodynamics? [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Thought experiments like Maxwell’s Demon or the Smoluchowski–Feynman Ratchet can help in pursuing the microscopic origin of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Here we present a more sophisticated mechanical system than a ratchet, consisting of
Bienewald S, Fieguth DM, Anglin JR.
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The Rectified Second Law of Thermodynamics [PDF]
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006 Equilibrium thermodynamics is combined with Jarzynski's irreversible work theorem to quantify the excess entropy produced by irreversible processes. The resulting rectified form of the second law parallels the first law, in the sense that it facilitates the experimental measurement of excess entropy changes resulting from irreversible work and heat ...
Ben-Amotz, Dor, Honig, J. M.
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The second laws of quantum thermodynamics [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Significance In ordinary thermodynamics, transitions are governed by a single quantity–the free energy. Its monotonicity is a formulation of the second law. Here, we find that the second law for microscopic or highly correlated systems takes on a very different form than it does at the macroscopic scale, imposing not just one ...
Fernando G. S. L. Brandão +4 more
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On the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Piston Problem [PDF]
Journal of Statistical Physics, 2004 29 pages, 9 figures submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics (2003)
Gruber, C., Pache, S., Lesne, A.
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Mechanical Proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Based on Volume Entropy [PDF]
, 2007 In a previous work (M. Campisi. Stud. Hist. Phil. M. P. 36 (2005) 275-290) we have addressed the mechanical foundations of equilibrium thermodynamics on the basis of the Generalized Helmholtz Theorem.
Campisi, Michele
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Holography, Cosmology, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 1999 Latex, 12 pages (v2: reference added)
Easther, Richard, Lowe, David
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