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Temperature fluctuations in a heat bath

Journal Article · · American Journal of Physics; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17410· OSTI ID:6789061
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

The model of two boxes in thermal contact each filled with an ideal quasiclassical gas is used to treat, in a unified way, temperature fluctuations in both finite and infinite heat baths. One box is regarded as the heat bath and the other serves as the thermometer.

DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
6789061
Journal Information:
American Journal of Physics; (United States), Journal Name: American Journal of Physics; (United States) Vol. 61:1; ISSN AJPIAS; ISSN 0002-9505
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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