Published November 2008
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Time asymmetry in a dynamical model of the one-dimensional ideal gas
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- Boozer, A. D.
Abstract
We present a simple dynamical model of the one-dimensional ideal gas and show how it can be used to introduce a number of fundamental ideas in statistical mechanics. We use the model to illustrate the role of initial conditions in explaining time asymmetry and show that although the dynamical model is time-reversal invariant, the macroscopic behavior of the gas can be time-asymmetric if the initial conditions are chosen properly.
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© 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers. (Received 14 April 2008; accepted 25 July 2008) The author would like to thank Andreea Boca for preparing the graphs.Attached Files
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