Inconsistency of the non-standard definition of work
Statistical Mechanics
2007-07-26 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show that the recently postulated non-standard definition of work proportional to force variation rather than to displacement [A. Imparato and L. Peliti, cond-mat arXiv:0706.1134v1] is thermodynamically inconsistent at both microscopic and macroscopic scales and leads to non-physical results, including free energy changes that depend on arbitrary parameters.
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@article{arxiv.0707.3802,
title = {Inconsistency of the non-standard definition of work},
author = {Jose M. G. Vilar and J. Miguel Rubi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3802},
year = {2007}
}