Re: Thermodynamics and Symmetry

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

According to Noether's theorem, invariance of the Lagrangian under a
one-parameter transformation implies the existence of a conserved
quantity associated with the generator of the transformation.  I await
David Bowman's detailed elucidation of this encapsulation.

BTW, if I'm not mistaken, Noether was a woman who (some claim) might have
gotten a Nobel had she been a man!  Please, someone correct or verify
this (my memory is the second thing to be going!).

-Bob


Bob Sciamanda   sciamanda@edinboro.edu
Dept of Physics   trebor@velocity.net
Edinboro Univ of PA  http://www.edinboro.edu/~sciamanda/home.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Green <JMGreen@sisna.com>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Friday, March 20, 1998 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Thermodynamics and Symmetry
> . . .
> He then does a brief review of Noether's theorem.  p 460ff
>
> What is this symmetry stuff all about?  Who (or what) is Noether?
> . . .
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com