John W. Daily

Statistical Thermodynamics

An Engineering Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text is for graduate or advanced undergraduate statistical thermodynamics courses in mechanical or aerospace engineering. It covers the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic thermodynamics and derives properties for gases, liquids and solids. It also covers non-equilibrium behavior as found in kinetic theory and chemical kinetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 188mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415316
• ISBN-10: 1108415318
• Artikelnr.: 53215754

Autorenporträt

John Daily is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Combustion and Environmental Research at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously was a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and serves on the AIAA Executive Publications Committee. He has regular contributor to the AIAA Journal, the Combustion Institute Journal and the ASME Heat Transfer Journal. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermal-sciences, including thermodynamics. He is a founder of Precision Biopsy, LLC., a company that is developing optical biopsy instrumentation for cancer detection.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Fundamentals of macroscopic thermodynamics; 3. Microscopic thermodynamics; 4. Quantum mechanics; 5. Ideal gases; 6. Ideal gas mixtures; 7. The photon and electron gases; 8. Dense gases; 9. Liquids; 10. Crystalline solids; 11. Thermodynamic stability and phase change; 12. Kinetic theory of gases; 13. Spectroscopy; 14. Chemical kinetics.