José María Martín-Olalla and Alfredo Rey de Luna 2003 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 7909 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/29/303
José María Martín-Olalla and Alfredo Rey de Luna
Show affiliationsWe revisit the relationship between the Nernst theorem and the Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law. We propose that the exchange of entropy uniformly vanishes as the temperature goes to zero. The analysis of this assumption shows that is equivalent to the fact that the compensation of a Carnot engine scales with the absorbed heat so that the Nernst theorem should be embedded in the statement of the second law.
Issue 29 (25 July 2003)
Received 31 January 2003, in final form 21 May 2003
Published 8 July 2003
José María Martín-Olalla and Alfredo Rey de Luna 2003 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 7909
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