A. B. Pippard

Elements of Classical Thermodynamics

For Advanced Students of Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The laws of thermodynamics are amongst the most assured and wide-ranging of all scientific laws. They do not pretend to explain any observation in molecular terms but, by showing the necessary relationships between different physical properties, they reduce otherwise disconnected results to compact order, and predict new effects. This classic title, first published in 1957, is a systematic exposition of principles, with examples of applications, especially to changes of places and the conditions for stability. In all this entropy is a key concept.

Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics; 3. Reversible changes; 4. The second law of thermodynamics; 5. A miscellany of useful ideas; 6. Applications of thermodynamics to simple systems; 7. The thermodynamic inequalities; 8. Phase equilibrium; 9. Higher-order transitions; Exercises; Index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780521091015
• ISBN-10: 0521091012
• Artikelnr.: 21434078

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics
3. Reversible changes
4. The second law of thermodynamics
5. A miscellany of useful ideas
6. Applications of thermodynamics to simple systems
7. The thermodynamic inequalities
8. Phase equilibrium
9. Higher-order transitions
Exercises
Index.