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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Day, William Alan
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1988.
Series:Springer tracts in natural philosophy ; 32.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nonlinear Thermoelasticity
  • Simplification and Approximation
  • Efficiency Within Nonlinear Thermoelasticity
  • Efficiency Within Homogeneous and Dissipationless Thermoelasticity
  • Efficiency Within Linearized Thermoelasticity
  • Versions of a Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • References
  • Index.