Transition from mechanical equilibrium to thermal equilibrium in a chain of unstable springs

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-21

  Yoshikawa, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain of unstable springs; Equations of state; Gibbs free energy; Thermal equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; GIBBS FREE ENERGY;

CORRESPONDING RELATIONS; FORCE ELONGATIONS; FORCE RELATIONS; MECHANICAL EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

ARTICLE; ENERGY; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; OSCILLATION; SPRING; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0037454806     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01658-4     Document Type: Article

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