Relativistic heat engines and efficiency
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Warren G. Anderson
- Source
- Physics Letters A. 223:23-27
- Subject
- Physics
Classical mechanics
Relative motion
Scalar (physics)
General Physics and Astronomy
Covariant transformation
Tensor
Heat engine
- Language
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
We discuss some properties of heat engines with source and sink in relative motion. In particular, we introduce an efficiency tensor for such engines and explore its properties. This is the natural covariant generalisation of the scalar efficiency of conventional thermodynamics.