On thermodynamic and microscopic reversibility [electronic resource].
- Published
- Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2011.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- 5 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary
- The word 'reversible' has two (apparently) distinct applications in statistical thermodynamics. A thermodynamically reversible process indicates an experimental protocol for which the entropy change is zero, whereas the principle of microscopic reversibility asserts that the probability of any trajectory of a system through phase space equals that of the time reversed trajectory. However, these two terms are actually synonymous: a thermodynamically reversible process is microscopically reversible, and vice versa.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:lbnl-5052e
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
07/12/2011.
"lbnl-5052e"
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2011 7 FT
Crooks, Gavin E. - Funding Information
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
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