A Commentary on Thermodynamics /
The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1988.
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| Series: | Springer tracts in natural philosophy ;
32. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorporates the effects of heat conduction and intertia, and proving appropriate results about the governing differential equations of this field theory. Even in the simplest one-dimensional case it is a nontrivial task to carry through the details of this program, and many challenging problems remain open. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 96 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441985507 (electronic bk.) 1441985506 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0081-3877 ; |