Volume 17: Pages 288-294, 2004

Challenges to a Temperature Transformation in Special Relativity Derived from Form Invariance of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

J. J. Bevelacqua

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A temperature relationship is derived from special relativity by examining motion in two translating inertial reference frames. The temperature relationship leads to a result that suggests that a moving body appears to cool. However, this result is challenged by difficulties encountered in describing temperature as a component of a 4‐vector.

Keywords: special relativity, temperature relationship, temperature 4‐vector, relativistic thermodynamics, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics

Received: October 2, 2002; Published online: December 15, 2008