Paradoxes of Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews various paradoxes in thermodynamics and statistical physics, exploring their historical origins, classifications, and solutions to better understand their significance and recurring nature in physics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of thermodynamic and statistical physics paradoxes, including their history, types, and resolutions, offering new insights into their roles in physics development.

Findings

Paradoxes are classified by origin and nature.

Historical analysis reveals patterns in paradox emergence.

Solutions to paradoxes are systematically discussed.

Abstract

The paradoxes of thermodynamics and statistical physics are unavoidable in the study of physical paradoxes because of their importance at the time they came to be as well as the frequency of their appearance in historical studies of physics. In this work paradoxes are presented together with the historical studies of their creation, their solutions are given and they are analysed according to a number of characteristics: is it an exparadox, is it of theoretic or experimental nature, is it a thought experiment and the type of paradox it belongs to.