For systems that simultaneously exhibit multiple irreversible transport processes, a result named for this function implies that the matrix of phenomenological coefficients is symmetric and positive-definite. Those equations named for this function are derived by Taylor expanding entropy in terms of a matrix L and won a Nobel prize for their discoverer, Lars Onsager. For a system reversibly exchanging heat with its surroundings, the integral of this function of temperature with respect to heat is the change in (*) entropy, as in Clausius’s theorem. This function of the product of Boltzmann’s constant and temperature yields thermodynamic beta. This function of pressure is proportional to volume by Boyles’ law. For 10 points, “coldness” and temperature are related by what function, equivalent to an inverse proportion? ■END■
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