Temperature Equilibrium in a Static Gravitational Field
- 15 December 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 36 (12) , 1791-1798
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.36.1791
Abstract
In the case of a gravitating mass of perfect fluid which has come to thermodynamic equilibrium, it has previously been shown that the proper temperature as measured by a local observer would depend in a definite manner on the gravitational potential at the point where the measurement is made. In the present article the conditions of thermal equilibrium are investigated in the case of a general static gravitational field which could correspond to a system containing solid as well as fluid parts. Writing the line element for the general static field in the form
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