Conventional methods fail to measure c_p(omega) of glass-forming liquids
arXiv:cond-mat/0612029 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041502
Abstract
The specific heat is frequency dependent in highly viscous liquids. By solving the full one-dimensional thermo-viscoelastic problem analytically it is shown that, because of thermal expansion and the fact that mechanical stresses relax on the same time scale as the enthalpy relaxes, the plane thermal-wave method does not measure the isobaric frequency-dependent specific heat c_p(omega). This method rather measures a "longitudinal" frequency-dependent specific heat, a quantity defined and detailed here that is in-between c_p(omega) and c_v(omega). This result means that no wide-frequency measurements of c_p(omega) on liquids approaching the calorimetric glass transition exist. We briefly discuss consequences for experiment.
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