Don S. Lemons

A Student's Guide to Entropy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book helps readers understand the elusive concept of entropy to supplement undergraduate courses in physics, engineering, chemistry and mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011564
• ISBN-10: 1107011566
• Artikelnr.: 39402174

Autorenporträt

Don S. Lemons is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Bethel College and a Guest Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He taught undergraduate physics at Bethel College for 23 years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thermodynamic entropy
2. Statistical entropy
3. Entropy of classical systems
4. Entropy of quantized systems
5. Entropy of a non-isolated system
6. Entropy of Fermion systems
7. Entropy of Boson system
8. Entropy of information
Epilogue
Appendixes
Index.