By the inclusion of an explicit dependence of the energy on the boundary of the system, the thermodynamic description of inhomogeneous systems is made more complete. In particular, virtual processes can then be defined that determine the measurable stresses everywhere in the system.
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Edward W. Hart (1959) studied this question.
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