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Symplectic Geometry Lecture 9 Hamilton’s principle Legendre Transformations Thermodynamics Generating functions
Transcript of Symplectic Geometry Lecture 9 - Harvard …math.harvard.edu/archive/139_spring_05/sympgeom9.pdf ·...
Symplectic GeometryLecture 9Hamilton’s principle
Legendre TransformationsThermodynamics
Generating functions
Hamilton’s principle
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Systems and states.
Equilibrium states.
Diathermal contact.
Thermal equilibrium.
The zero-th law of thermodynamics.
Configurational variables.
Adiabatic interactions.
The first law.
Heat
Reversible paths.
Pressure.
The heat form.
The second law.
Entropy.
The combined laws.
The gas constant.
The combined laws and symplectic geometry.
The entropy as a generating function.
Planck’s function as a generating function.
Massieu’s function as a generating function.
The Massieu function and the partition function.
The graph of a symplectomorphism.
Problems with the definition of composition.
The cotangent case.