On the Second Law of thermodynamics and the piston problem
Statistical Mechanics
2016-08-31 v1
Abstract
The piston problem is investigated in the case where the length of the cylinder is infinite (on both sides) and the ratio is a very small parameter, where is the mass of one particle of the gaz and is the mass of the piston. Introducing initial conditions such that the stochastic motion of the piston remains in the average at the origin (no drift), it is shown that the time evolution of the fluids, analytically derived from Liouville equation, agrees with the Second Law of thermodynamics. We thus have a non equilibrium microscopical model whose evolution can be explicitly shown to obey the two laws of thermodynamics.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312340,
title = {On the Second Law of thermodynamics and the piston problem},
author = {C. Gruber and S. Pache and A. Lesne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312340},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
29 pages, 9 figures submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics (2003)