Martinez, S.; Plastino, A.; Soffer, B.H. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 356 (2005) 1, pp. 167-171
Thermodynamics’ first law (TFL), although undoubtedly true because of its many verified consequences, rests on a rather weak experimental foundation in the sense that, as pointed out by Pippard, its path-independent aspect cannot be said to have been directly verified. From the theoretical...