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On Classical Ideal Gases
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
The ideal gas laws are derived from the democritian concept of corpuscles moving in vacuum plus a principle of simplicity, namely that these laws are independent of the laws of mot…
On the ideal gas law
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
The air density on earth decays as a function of altitude approximately according to an -law, where denotes the weight of a nitrogen molecule and $θ=\kB T$ w…
Democritus and the motive power of fire
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
The present work is a translation from french to english of our previous \g{Démocrite et la puissance motrice du feu}, amended on a number of respects. It is mainly of historical a…
Quiet Lasers
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
We call "quiet laser" a stationary laser that generates in detectors regular photo-electrons (sub-Poisson statistics). It follows from the law of conservation of energy that this i…
Grand-mother clocks and quiet lasers
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
Galileo noted in the 16th century that the period of oscillation of a pendulum is almost independent of the amplitude. However, such a pendulum is damped by air friction. The latte…
A simple model for Carnot heat engines
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, Fabrice Philippe
We present a (random) mechanical model consisting of two lottery-like reservoirs at altitude and , respectively, in the earth's gravitational field. Both reservoirs…