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Subject: Re: Isobaric expansion
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:24:26 -0800
From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>
Equilibrium thermodynamics can't
explain what happens during supernova core collapse either.
Please be aware that I've read and reread Reif several times during
my 34 years as a physics professor. I first prescribed the book in
1967 when I first taught the course at SFU. Don't you realize that
you are telling me nothing I don't know?
In Reif chemical equilibrium is treated as a case of equilibrium<snip>
thermodynamics (Section 8.9, p. 317). The terminology I use is
that of Reif, the conventional physical terminology.
Even accepting Leigh's definition of "static
equilibrium" to include motion or not, the use of the qualifier
"static" carries no meaning at all. Otherwise, what, then, would be
an example of equilibrium which is not static?
I can only reiterate.
As
you have noted yourself equilibrium thermodynamics can be
applied to nonequilibrium systems, though the conclusions
may only yield approximations.