The Life of Lord Kelvin

Thompson, Silvanus P.; Romer, Alfred

doi:10.1119/1.10735

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“…William Thomson, the leading British proponent of the idea of energy dissipation (or what came to be called entropy), denied in 1852 that animals can be viewed in any sense as thermodynamic machines equivalent to steam engines. 70 Engels in particular was wary of the crude mechanistic and energy-reductionist purposes to which thermodynamics was put in some subsequent analyses. As he wrote in The Dialectics of Nature:…”

Section: Labor Power and Its Valuementioning

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Metabolism, energy, and entropy in Marx's critique of political economy: Beyond the Podolinsky myth

Burkett

Foster²

2006

Theor Soc

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Until recently, most commentators, including ecological Marxists, have assumed that Marx's historical materialism was only marginally ecologically sensitive at best, or even that it was explicitly anti-ecological. However, research over the last decade has demonstrated not only that Marx deemed ecological materialism essential to the critique of political economy and to investigations into socialism, but also that his treatment of the coevolution of nature and society was in many ways the most sophisticated to be put forth by any social theorist prior to the late twentieth century. Still, criticisms continue to be leveled at Marx and Engels for their understanding of thermodynamics and the extent to which their work is said to conflict with the core tenets of ecological economics. In this respect, the rejection by Marx and Engels of the pioneering contributions of the Ukrainian socialist Sergei Podolinsky, one of the founders of energetics, has been frequently offered as the chief ecological case against them. Building on an earlier analysis of Marx's and Engels's response to Podolinsky, this article shows that they relied on an open-system, metabolic-energetic model that adhered to all of the main strictures of ecological economics -but one that also (unlike ecological economics) rooted the violation of solar and other environmental-sustainability conditions in the class relations of capitalist society. The result is to generate a deeper understanding of classical historical materialism's ecological approach to economy and society -providing an ecological-materialist critique that can help uncover the systemic roots of today's "treadmill of production" and global environmental crisis. Prominent among the wedges driven between Marxism and ecological economics is the notion that Marx and Engels responded indifferently or even negatively to Podolinsky's insertion of certain elements of thermodynamics into socialist theory. Initially set out by Juan Martinez-Alier and J.M. Naredo, the standard basis for this contention can be summarized via three basic presumptions. 1 First, in the early 1880s Podolinsky published an energetic analysis of human labor that attempted to reconcile Marx's labor theory of value with the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Second, when confronted with Podolinsky's analysis, Marx simply ignored it while Engels cursorily

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Metabolism, energy, and entropy in Marx's critique of political economy: Beyond the Podolinsky myth

Burkett

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2006

Theor Soc

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“…It has not yet been more fully developed mainly due to the problem of how to write the Schrödinger equation. Remains valid the remark by Lord Kelvin (alias William Thomson, who formulated the laws of thermodynamics) [30]:…”

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Foundations of the Quaternion Quantum Mechanics

Danielewski

Sapa

2020

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We show that the quaternion quantum mechanics has well-founded mathematical roots and can be derived from the model of elastic continuum by French mathematician Augustin Cauchy, i.e., it can be regarded as representing physical reality of elastic continuum. Starting from the Cauchy theory (classical balance equations for isotropic Cauchy-elastic material) and using the Hamilton quaternion algebra we present a rigorous derivation of the quaternion form of the non- and relativistic wave equations. The family of the wave equations and the Poisson equation are a straightforward consequence of the quaternion representation of the Cauchy model of the elastic continuum. This is the most general kind of quantum mechanics possessing the same kind of calculus of assertions as conventional quantum mechanics. The problem of the Schrödinger equation, where imaginary ‘i’ should emerge, is solved. This interpretation is a serious attempt to describe the ontology of quantum mechanics, and demonstrates that, besides Bohmian mechanics, the complete ontological interpretations of quantum theory exists. The model can be generalized and falsified. To ensure this theory to be true, we specified problems allowing exposing its falsity.

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“…Because the matrix is an essentially diffusionless framework within which motion of the carriers occurs, neither the flux nor the driving force of the matrix component need enter the analysis. The electrochemical potential e for electrons is [10] e = Ve + <leV> (1) where μ β is the chemical potential of an electron, q e is the, charge on an electron and Fis the internal electrical potential. Two sources of Kare usefully distinguished; V g , a portion generated by displacement of electrons (an example is given by Eq.…”

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“…In 1851, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) achieved a remarkable deduction with the aid of thermodynamics [1] and demonstrated an interdependence among the thermoelectric effects discovered earlier by Seebeck and Peltier. The validity of this deduction remained a matter of controversy until 1931 when Onsager [2] demonstrated the existence of reciprocal relations between certain coefficients in phenomenological equations.…”

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Thermodynamic Basis of Thermopower in Metals and Semiconductors

Guy¹

1983

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

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Thermopower is a well known example of the cross effects that figure prominently in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Existing analyses require that a cross coefficient be determined empirically. The present treatment demonstrates, however, that thermopower is determined by the enthalpy of the conduction electrons. It follows that other cross coefficients can be calculated similarly from suitable thermodynamic quantities plus in general, the empirically determined direct coefficients. A crucial change from existing analyses is the use of a constant-temperature chemical driving force. This change results in the introduction of the enthalpy term into the equations in question. Since measurements of thermopower can yield a basic thermodynamic property of the conduction electrons, the way is now open for thermodynamic calculations of important properties of electronic devices.

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The Life of Lord Kelvin

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Metabolism, energy, and entropy in Marx's critique of political economy: Beyond the Podolinsky myth

Metabolism, energy, and entropy in Marx's critique of political economy: Beyond the Podolinsky myth

Foundations of the Quaternion Quantum Mechanics

Thermodynamic Basis of Thermopower in Metals and Semiconductors

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