Dynamics on Differential One-Forms
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780595744718
First sentence: Thermodynamics and Hamiltonian dynamics are shown to be different mathematical representations of the same unifying principle; namely, the use of a single one-form defined on a representative extended phase space leads, by differential geometric analysis, to a set of characteristic differential equations which describe irreversible transformations of physical systems.