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The thermodynamics of bodies in static electromagnetic fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

V. Heine
V. Heine
Affiliation:
Physics DepartmentUniversity of OtagoNew Zealand*
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Abstract

The thermodynamic behaviour of a body in a static electromagnetic field depends only on the field over the region of the body itself, whence its own thermodynamic behaviour is determined even in the presence of other polarizable media. Its behaviour depends only on the entropy density, for in fact no real energy density need exist. Also new formulae are developed for the energy and for the entropy of a body in electric and magnetic fields, including those due to permanent magnets.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , July 1956 , pp. 546 - 552
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1956

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