Ingo Müller, Wolf Weiss

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Entropy and Energy (eBook, PDF)

A Universal Competition

Beschreibung

This student textbook and scientific monograph provides a very readable introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. It gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology. The reader has numerous possibilities to influence the programs and thus develop an understanding for the thermodynamic principles.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 3.67MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Ingo Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany / Wolf Weiss, Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Berlin, Germany

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540323808
• Artikelnr.: 44129558

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This is a wonderful book. In 263 pages, Müller and Weiss provide a superb, all-round, profusely illustrated review of thermodynamics, from its origins and conceptual foundations to its contemporary statistical physics aspects, and to some of its more recent applications in such areas as meteorology and mathematical sociology. ... Given the accessibility of the material I'd certainly recommend it to advanced undergraduate students from a wide range of sciences." (Dean Rickles, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 j)

"The authors of the present book understand energy and entropy - or loosely termed 'cause and chance' - as two parameters being in a universal competition. ... The book may be read by newcomers in thermodynamics ... ." (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1116 (18), 2007)