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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Published in:	Entropy
Main Author:	Stefano Bordoni
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2014-11-01
Subjects:	mechanics thermodynamics potentials Lagrange’s equations Joseph John Thomson Pierre Duhem
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/11/5876