Title of dissertation: THERMODYNAMICS, REVERSIBILTY AND JAYNES’ APPROACH TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS Daniel N. Parker, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeffrey Bub Department of Philosophy This dissertation contests David Albert’s recent arguments that the proposition that the universe began in a particularly low entropy state (the “past hypothesis”) is necessary and ...

−− In this paper, a new procedure for the design and analysis of Heat and Power Plants is presented. In this formulation, thermodynamic solutions obtained by maximizing the plant efficiency are used to find the economic design of the plant. In fact, by applying the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions it is possible to relate thermodynamic and economic solutions. A formal context for the use of thermo...

The separated electromagnetic responses RL(q, ω) and RT (q, ω) for inclusive electron scattering off nuclei are studied within a functional scheme.

The electronic and structural properties of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) interacted with 4-amino phenyl-azobenzene were theoretically investigated by using the hybrid DFT (hybrid-density functional theory) calculations. The amount of thermodynamic parameters of this reaction in the gas and aqueous phase suggesting thermodynamic favourability for adsorption of 4-amino phenyl-azobenzene ...

This paper presents a new approach to the observation and the control of the behavior of multiple autonomous robots. It is the microscopic observation expressed by dynamic equations that has been commonly employed to observe the multi-robot behavior. However, the approach has the difficulties in estimating the behavior and the mutual interactions of robots. Furthermore, it is hard to realize th...