Thermodynamics A Complete Undergraduate Course
Oxford University Press, 2016
Abstract:
This book aims to convey the style and power of thermodynamic reasoning, along with applications such as Joule-Kelvin expansion, the gas turbine, magnetic cooling, solids at high pressure, chemical equilibrium, radiative heat exchange and ...Detecting continuous spontaneous localisation with charged bodies in a Paul trap
(2016)
On determining absolute entropy without quantum theory or the third law of thermodynamics
New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 18 (2016) 043022-043022
Abstract:
We employ classical thermodynamics to gain information about absolute entropy, without recourse to statistical methods, quantum mechanics or the third law of thermodynamics. The Gibbs-Duhem equation yields various simple methods to determine the absolute entropy of a fluid. We also study the entropy of an ideal gas and the ionization of a plasma in thermal equilibrium. A single measurement of the degree of ionization can be used to determine an unknown constant in the entropy equation, and thus determine the absolute entropy of a gas. It follows from all these examples that the value of entropy at absolute zero temperature does not need to be assigned by postulate, but can be deduced empirically.Dark-resonance Doppler cooling and high fluorescence in trapped Ca-43 ions at intermediate magnetic field
New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 18:2 (2016) 023043
High-fidelity spatial and polarization addressing of Ca-43 qubits using near-field microwave control
(2016)