1989•Journal of Physics A Mathematical and GeneralOpen access

On H Buchdahl's project of a thermodynamics without empirical temperature as a primitive concept

Joachim Walter

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As a consequence of an elementary quantification-theoretical analysis, the author maintains that formulations in the spirit of Caratheodory (1909) of the second law are dependent on the zeroth law. Any attempt to show the redundancy of the zeroth law on the basis of formulations of this kind of the second law is, therefore, bound to fail.

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Key concepts: Zeroth law of thermodynamics, Thermodynamics, Second law of thermodynamics, First law, First law of thermodynamics, Redundancy (engineering), Physics, Theoretical physics