J. S. Dugdale

Entropy And Its Physical Meaning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical treatment that provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order at low temperatures. The book includes a brief account of some of the more intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and superfluidity. It also includes a number of exercises that can be used for both self- learning and class work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351990776
• Artikelnr.: 73300921

Autorenporträt

Sydney Dugdale is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics, University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Entropy in thermodynamics: temperature and heat - some historical developments
temperature and heat - a different approach
the first law of thermodynamics
the second law of thermodynamics
entropy - how it is measured and how it is used
entropy in irreversible changes. Part 2 The statistical interpretation of entropy: the statistical approach - a specific example
general ideas and development
the definition of a microstate
temperature and entropy in statistical mechanics
applications to solids
applications to gases - 1 - the classical approximation, 2 - Bose Einstein and Fermi-Dirac gases
fluctuation and Maxwell's demon. Part 3 Entropy at low temperatures: the third law of thermodynamics
low temperatures
the third law of thermodynamics and the unattainability of absolute zero.