In this text, the study of thermodynamics is manipulated against the normal course of study. While students and academics will learn the concepts, formulas, and laws of thermodynamics, they will also begin to understand the historical circumstance behind it all.
In this text, the study of thermodynamics is manipulated against the normal course of study. While students and academics will learn the concepts, formulas, and laws of thermodynamics, they will also begin to understand the historical circumstance behind it all.
Dr. Robert T. Hanlon earned his Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Karlsruhe University in Germany. His professional career took him to Mobil Oil Research & Development Corporation, the Rohm and Haas Company, and then back to MIT where he is currently involved with their School of Chemical Engineering Practice.
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List of Figures Introduction Acknowledgements Part I - The Big Bang (and the synthesis of the elements in stars) 1. The Big Bang: science 2. The Big Bang: discovery Part II - The Atom (hard spheres that attract and repel each other) 3. The Atom: science 4. The Atom: discovery Part III - Energy and the Conservation Laws 5. Energy: science (and some history) 6. Motion prior to Galileo 7. Galileo and the Law of Fall 8. Newton and the Laws of Motion 9. The lever 10. The rise of mv2 11. Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz 12. Rudimentary version of the conservation of mechanical energy (1750) 13. Heat: the missing piece to the puzzle 14. Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity 15. Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry 16. Rise of the steam engine 17. Caloric theory: beginning of its end 18. The ideal gas 19. The final steps to energy and its conservation 20. Julius Robert Mayer 21. James Joule 22. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics 23. Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay Part IV - Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics 24. Entropy: science (and some history) 25. It started with the piston 26. Britain and the steam engine 27. The Newcomen engine 28. James Watt 29. Trevithick, Woolf, and high-pressure steam 30. Sadi Carnot 31. Rudolf Clausius 32. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) 33. The creation of thermodynamics 34. Clausius and the road to entropy 35. J. Willard Gibbs 36. Gibbs' 3rd paper 37. Practical applications and Gibbs energy (G) 38. Dissemination of Gibbs' work 39. The 2nd Law, entropy, and the chemists 40. Clausius: the kinetic theory of gases 41. Maxwell: the rise of statistical mechanics 42. Boltzmann: the probabilistic interpretation of entropy 43. Shannon: entropy and information theory Afterword Bibliography Index Epigraph Permissions
List of Figures Introduction Acknowledgements Part I - The Big Bang (and the synthesis of the elements in stars) 1. The Big Bang: science 2. The Big Bang: discovery Part II - The Atom (hard spheres that attract and repel each other) 3. The Atom: science 4. The Atom: discovery Part III - Energy and the Conservation Laws 5. Energy: science (and some history) 6. Motion prior to Galileo 7. Galileo and the Law of Fall 8. Newton and the Laws of Motion 9. The lever 10. The rise of mv2 11. Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz 12. Rudimentary version of the conservation of mechanical energy (1750) 13. Heat: the missing piece to the puzzle 14. Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity 15. Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry 16. Rise of the steam engine 17. Caloric theory: beginning of its end 18. The ideal gas 19. The final steps to energy and its conservation 20. Julius Robert Mayer 21. James Joule 22. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics 23. Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay Part IV - Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics 24. Entropy: science (and some history) 25. It started with the piston 26. Britain and the steam engine 27. The Newcomen engine 28. James Watt 29. Trevithick, Woolf, and high-pressure steam 30. Sadi Carnot 31. Rudolf Clausius 32. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) 33. The creation of thermodynamics 34. Clausius and the road to entropy 35. J. Willard Gibbs 36. Gibbs' 3rd paper 37. Practical applications and Gibbs energy (G) 38. Dissemination of Gibbs' work 39. The 2nd Law, entropy, and the chemists 40. Clausius: the kinetic theory of gases 41. Maxwell: the rise of statistical mechanics 42. Boltzmann: the probabilistic interpretation of entropy 43. Shannon: entropy and information theory Afterword Bibliography Index Epigraph Permissions
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