Is There a Temperature? Conceptual Challenges at High Energy, Acceleration and Complexity /

• Main Author: Biró, Tamás Sándor (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 171
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Continuum physics.; Thermodynamics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Physical Chemistry.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Physical bodies can be hot or cold, moving or standing,simple or complex.  In all such cases one assumes that their respective temperature is a well defined attribute.  What if, however, the ordinary measurement of temperature by direct body contact is not possible?  One conjectures its value, and y...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• How to measure the temperature
• How to interpret the temperature
• Fluctuating temperature
• Complications with the temperature.- The temperature of moving bodies
• The temperature of no return
• The temperature in quantum field theory
• Afterword
• Solutions
• References.