Has the Second Law of Thermodynamics Really Been Violated?
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Has the Second Law of Thermodynamics Really Been Violated?
Some works have appeared in recent accredited literature considering the possibility of macroscopic violations of the second law in simulated as well as really executed experiments. We argue the inexistence of such violations in experiments based on the so-called nonbias diode, demonstrating that the interpretation of the authors is flawed by a confusion between the concepts of thermal equilibr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics Essays
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0836-1398
DOI: 10.4006/1.3254512