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bath: a standalone construct

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bath1 CONSTRUCTHeat bathREIF · HEAT RESERVOIR

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Statistical mechanics

A reservoir that fixes temperature

In statistical mechanics a heat bath, or thermal reservoir, is an idealised body so large that it can exchange energy with a smaller system in thermal contact without itself changing temperature, thereby fixing the system's temperature and putting it in the canonical ensemble. Reif's Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics develops the reservoir as the device that holds a system at constant temperature. The construct is a large medium that imposes a fixed intensive condition on whatever is coupled to it, the same idea realised in a lab water bath and in a dyer's bath.[1]

Unit
The temperature the reservoir holds the coupled system at
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by the fixed temperature it maintains regardless of the heat exchanged

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References

  1. Reif, F. (2009). Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics. Waveland Press. (Original work published 1965) ISBN 9781577666127

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