ISSN:
1434-601X
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract The behaviour of mixtures of reacting gases can be described by means of different principles. In this paper the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is confronted by a method based on the mechanics of particles. Here the conception of the “constituents” as the building elements, composing the several components of the mixture, can be used profitably. Taking into consideration the thermal diffusion and the terms due to reactions in the equations of force, when the mechanical or “dynamical” method is used, and formulating the kinetic quantities more precisely, when the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is regarded, the forces of inertia, hitherto missed, appear in the phenomenological equations, and the two systems can be proved to be equivalent.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01379271
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