Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- Author: C. J. Adkins
- Date Published: July 1983
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521274562
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Equilibrium Thermodynamics gives a comprehensive but concise course in the fundamentals of classical thermodynamics. Although the subject is essentially classical in nature, illustrative material is drawn widely from modern physics and free use is made of microscopic ideas to illuminate it. The overriding objective in writing the book was to achieve a clear exposition: to give an account of the subject that it both stimulating and easy to learn from. Classical thermodynamics has such wide application that it can be taught in many ways. The terms of reference for Equilibrium Thermodynamics are primarily those of the undergraduate physicist; but it is also suitable for courses in chemistry, engineering, materials science etc. The subject is usually taught in the first or second year of an undergraduate course, but the book takes the student to degree standard (and beyond). Prerequisites are elementary or school-level thermal physics.
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- Date Published: July 1983
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521274562
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The zeroth law
3. The first law
4. The second law
5. Entropy
6. The Carathéodory formulation of the second law
7. Thermodynamic potentials
8. Applications to simple systems
9. Applications to some irreversible changes
10. Change of phase
11. Systems of several components
12. The third law
Appendix
Useful data
Problems
References
Index.
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