Uma investigação da termodinâmica relativística: conceitos fundamentais

Abstract

He present work presents a bibliographical review of the Special Theory of Relativity (RS), with an emphasis on the still open debate on the Lorentz transformations for temperature and the different propositions formulated by Planck and Einstein, by Ott, and by Landsberg. They state that the temperature transforms as follows respectively: T ′ = T /γ; T ′ = γT ; T ′ = T . The theory arose with the aim of solving the invariance of Maxwell’s equations, giving rise to two postulates that contradict Classical Mechanics at high speeds. The objective is to present a didactic and easy-to-understand work aimed at higher education students who want to understand or have difficulties in assimilating the concepts and calculations about the theory. The work initially talks about Galileo’s relativity and shows the flaws, then demonstrates the Lorentz transformation for the same reference with the correction factor γ and as a consequence, the transformation of time and length for this reference. . And finally, the last chapter brings the temperature transformation, the aim is to demonstrate the authors’ view on the behavior of some thermodynamic quantities.