Work done on a single-particle gas during an adiabatic compression and expansion process

Carlos E. Álvarez, Nicolás Afanador, Gabriel Téllez

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We compute the average work done by an external agent, driving a piston at constant speed, over a single-particle gas going through an adiabatic compression and expansion process. To do so, we get the analytical expression relating the number of collisions between the piston and the particle with the position of the piston during the process. The ergodicity breaking of the system during the process is identified as the source of its irreversibility. In addition, we observe that by using particular initial distributions for the state of the particle, it is possible to preclude the possibility of a net energy transfer from the agent to the particle during the process.

Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Número de artículo042110
PublicaciónPhysical Review E
Volumen100
N.º4
DOI
EstadoPublicada - oct. 8 2019

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Física estadística y no lineal
  • Estadística y probabilidad
  • Física de la materia condensada

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