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Information and thermodynamics’ first law

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  • Martinez, S.
  • Plastino, A.
  • Soffer, B.H.

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Thermodynamics’ first law (TFL), although undoubtedly true because of its many verified consequences, rests on a rather weak experimental foundation in the sense that, as pointed out by Pippard, its path-independent aspect cannot be said to have been directly verified. From the theoretical side, also questionable is the need of invoking the adiabatic theorem (AT) to prove the TFL from first principles. We provide a more direct theoretical demonstration, derived from information theory, without the AT and some other usually employed arguments.

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  • Martinez, S. & Plastino, A. & Soffer, B.H., 2005. "Information and thermodynamics’ first law," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 356(1), pages 167-171.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:356:y:2005:i:1:p:167-171
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.05.031
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    1. Chapeau-Blondeau, François & Rousseau, David, 2009. "The minimum description length principle for probability density estimation by regular histograms," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 388(18), pages 3969-3984.

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    First law; Information theory;

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