Timeline for Why doesn't reversible adiabatic expansion generate heat?
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:47 | history | bounty ended | lamplamp | ||
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | knzhou | @lamplamp The intuitive thing here I just thought up, I haven't seen it anywhere. I think for the full math you'd want a course in kinetic theory, like this, which basically does the calculation I did but for all the molecules at once. Learning about the 'adiabatic theorem' in quantum mechanics also helps, because it's closely related to adiabaticity in statistical mechanics. For general conceptual stuff (like what entropy and heat are) I recommend anything written by E.T. Jaynes. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 20:58 | comment | added | lamplamp | Thanks for the explanation! I've never seen this issue discussed either, and I was thinking about the cooling that occurs in the cloud in a bottle experiment, and what that means in terms of molecular collisions. I studied pchem in Atkins text and reversibility was presented with a vague statement about the system always being in equilibrium, but that didn't offer much insight into the mechanics of energy transfer. Can you recommend a text that addresses issues like these in more detail? Thanks. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 22:36 | history | edited | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 22:20 | history | answered | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |