Walter T Grandy Jr

Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explicates the concept of entropy, particularly its governance of all of thermal physics, over a broad range of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena. Historical development and modern research are presented in the context of entropy as a fundamental element of probability theory and its relation to the notion of information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199546176
• ISBN-10: 0199546177
• Artikelnr.: 24764514

Autorenporträt

Walter T. Grandy, Jr. Professor of Physics, Emeritus University of Wyoming Professor of Physics, University of Wyoming, 1963-1998. Visiting Professor: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Some Clarification from Another Direction
3: The Probability Connection
4: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
5: The Presumed Extensivity of Entropy
6: Nonequilibrium States
7: Steady-State Processes
8: Sources and Time-Dependent Proceses
9: Thermal Driving
10: Application to Fluid Dynamics
11: Irreversibility, Relaxation, and the Approach to Equilibrium
12: Entropy Production and Dissipation Rates
A: Perturbation Theory
B: Dissipative Currents and Galilean Invariance
C: Analytic Continuation of Covariance Functions