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arxiv: cond-mat/0412336 · v1 · submitted 2004-12-14 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech

The mutual co-implication of thermodynamics' first and second laws

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In classical phenomenological thermodynamics the first and second laws can be regarded as independent statements. Statistical mechanics provides a microscopic substratum that explains thermodynamics in probabilistic terms via a microstate probability distribution ${p_i}$. We study here a hitherto unexplored microscopic connection between the two laws. Given an information measure (or entropic form), each of the two laws implies the other through the process $p_i \to p_i+dp_i$.

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