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A New Perspective on Classical Ideal Gases

Authors :
Fabrice Philippe
Jacques Arnaud
Laurent Chusseau
Source :
Entropy, Vol 15, Iss 9, Pp 3379-3395 (2013)
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2013.

Abstract

The ideal-gas barometric and pressure laws are derived from the Democritian concept of independent corpuscles moving in vacuum, plus a principle of simplicity, namely that these laws are independent of the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian. A single corpuscle in contact with a heat bath in a cylinder and submitted to a constant force (weight) is considered. The paper importantly supplements a previously published paper: First, the stability of ideal gases is established. Second, we show that when walls separate the cylinder into parts and are later removed, the entropy is unaffected. We obtain full agreement with Landsberg’s and others’ (1994) classical thermodynamic result for the entropy of a column of gas submitted to gravity.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15093379 and 10994300
Volume :
15
Issue :
9
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Entropy
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.9a65f782732240fa80cf939c48fc803a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/e15093379