Comment "On the thermodynamic paradox in ferrite-loaded waveguides"

1 April 1968

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Proceedings of the IEEE

Vol. 56 (4) , 740
https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1968.6363

Abstract

The explanation of the thermodynamic paradox given by Gardiol is shown to be fallacious for physically possible situations. Gardiol's argument leads to the conclusion that loss-free reactances cannot exist and the fallacy may be removed by regarding the loss-free case as the limit in which losses become vanishingly small.

Keywords

THERMODYNAMICS
FERRITES
RLC CIRCUITS
FOURIER TRANSFORMS
FREQUENCY
PULSE CIRCUITS
VOLTAGE
CIRCUIT THEORY
IMPEDANCE
INDUCTANCE