Accession Number:

AD0600073

Title:

NOTE ON A PAPER BY SLIEPCEVICH AND FINN,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

WISCONSIN UNIV MADISON THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY INST

Personal Author(s):

• Andrews,Frank C.

Report Date:

1964-04-15

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

A recent paper by Sliepcevich and Finn Ind. Eng. Chem. Fund. Quart. 2249, 1963 claims to derive the basic equations of irreversible thermodynamics, in particular the reciprocal relations, from fundamental macroscopic principles. This paper is analyzed and shown to contain simply a truism. Author

Descriptors:

• *IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES
• EQUATIONS OF STATE
• THERMODYNAMICS
• ENTROPY
• FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS)
• EQUATIONS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE