It is a remarkable fact that the traditional teaching of thermodynamics, as reflected in the textbooks and including the long developments about ensembles and thermodynamic functions, is almost entirely about systems in equilibrium. The time variable does not enter. There is one exception,...

We revisit the first law of thermodynamics for nonextensive statistics by recourse to the optimal Lagrange multipliers (OLM) formalism. We show firstly that information theory allows one to obtain thermodynamics' first law in a general ensemble by dealing just with variations in the density...

We revisit the nonextensive treatment advanced by Tsallis, et al. (Physica A 261 (1998) 534) in order to perform a rather exhaustive study of its properties and compare them with the earlier formalism devised by Curado and Tsallis (J. Phys. A 24 (1991) L69). Some interesting features are in this...