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Special relativity and thermodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. Georgiou
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry

Abstract

It is shown that a revision is needed of certain transformation equations of the Planck–Einstein formulae. In particular it will be shown that the formulae

must be replaced by

where T and Q are respectively the absolute temperature and heat of the system. Furthermore, it will be shown that both formulae for the energy

are correct, but they refer to different cases.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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