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Entropy and Kinetic Theory for a Confined Gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jon Schnute
Jon Schnute*
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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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A well-known theorem in the classical kinetic theory for a gas states that the entropy is an increasing function of time. However, in order to obtain this theorem for a confined gas, some assumption about molecular response to the container wall is required. For example, it is enough to suppose that the wall reflects the molecules specularly [4].

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1975 , pp. 1271 - 1315
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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