Obtaining Laws of Thermodynamics for Ideal Gases using Elastic Collisions
Classical Physics
2013-05-30 v1
Abstract
The purpose of this note is to see to what extent ideal gas laws can be obtained from simple Newtonian mechanics, specifically elastic collisions. We present simple one-dimensional situations that seem to validate the laws. The first section describes a numerical simulation that demonstrates the second law of thermodynamics. The second section mathematically demonstrates the adiabatic law of expansion of ideal gases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.6667,
title = {Obtaining Laws of Thermodynamics for Ideal Gases using Elastic Collisions},
author = {Stephen Montgomery-Smith and Hannah Morgan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6667},
year = {2013}
}