J.J. Thomson and Duhem’s Lagrangian Approaches to Thermodynamics
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, different attitudes towards mechanics led to two main theoretical approaches to thermodynamics: an abstract and phenomenological approach, and a very different approach in terms of microscopic models. In reality some intermediate solutions were also put...
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MDPI AG
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/11/5876 |