Cleuren, Bart, Christian Van den Broeck, and R. Kawai. “Fluctuation and dissipation of work in a Joule experiment.” Physical review letters 96, no. 5 (2006): 050601.
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We elucidate the connection between various fluctuation theorems by a microcanonical version of the Crooks relation. We derive the microscopically exact expression for the work distribution in an idealized Joule experiment, namely, for a convex object moving at constant speed through an ideal gas. Analytic results are compared with molecular dynamics simulations of a hard disk gas.