Vol. 6, No. 2 (1946)
1946-01-20
CONTENT
1946, 6 (2): 8-21.
doi: 10.7498/aps.6.8
Abstract +
The main purpose of this paper is, after making some necessary preliminaries on the theory ot linear differential operators in one real variable, to obtain the explicit condition that such an operator of any order be a Hermitean operator, and as application of the result point out various quantum-mechanical instances.
1946, 6 (2): 22-29.
doi: 10.7498/aps.6.22
Abstract +
A simple problem in thermodynamics is considered with a view to emphasizing that the application of the adiabatic law pVγ=const, for a gas is permissible only when the process is quasistatic.
