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- Identifying Relativistic Effects in Thermodynamic Systems
Hello everyone, I was doing some calculations recently regarding particle velocities for different elements at different temperatures and I have a few questions for the experts in here.
Usual gas laws in my school book provides information about the velocity of particles in gases, it provides the V_rms, V_avg & V_mp of particles as a function of temperature in Kelvin.
My question is whether we need to treat these particles under the terms dictated by special relativity when they start approaching the speed of light.
Is there relativistic in-variance under these circumstances or is the kinetic energy needed to accelerate particles determined by the "relative mass" of the objects
It seems information about this aspect of high temperature gases is lacking in a lot of resources online.
Also, a side question: Do we have any way of calculating the max velocity for a distribution of gas particles at specific temperatures?
Usual gas laws in my school book provides information about the velocity of particles in gases, it provides the V_rms, V_avg & V_mp of particles as a function of temperature in Kelvin.
My question is whether we need to treat these particles under the terms dictated by special relativity when they start approaching the speed of light.
Is there relativistic in-variance under these circumstances or is the kinetic energy needed to accelerate particles determined by the "relative mass" of the objects
It seems information about this aspect of high temperature gases is lacking in a lot of resources online.
Also, a side question: Do we have any way of calculating the max velocity for a distribution of gas particles at specific temperatures?