Block by block : the historical and theoretical foundations of thermodynamics /
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Oxford :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The Big Bang (and the synthesis of the elements in stars)
- The Big Bang: science
- The Big Bang: discovery
- Part II: The atom (hard spheres that attract and repel each other)
- The atom: science
- The atom: discovery
- Part III: Energy and the conservation laws
- Energy : science (and some history)
- Motion prior to Galileo
- Galileo and the Law of Fall
- Newton and the Laws of Motion
- The lever
- The rise of mv²
- Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz
- Rudimentary version of the conservation of mechanical energy (1750)
- Heat: the missing piece to the puzzle
- Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity
- Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry
- Rise of the steam engine
- Caloric theory: beginning of its end
- The ideal gas
- The final steps to energy and its conservation
- Julius Robert Mayer
- James Joule
- The 1st Law of Thermodynamics
- Epilogue: the mystery of beta decay
- Part IV: Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics
- Entropy: science (and some history)
- It started with the piston
- Britain and the steam engine
- The Newcomen engine
- James Watt
- Trevithick, Woof, and high-pressure steam
- Sadi Carnot
- Rudolf Clausius
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
- The creation of thermodynamics
- Clausius and the road to entropy
- J. Willard Gibbs
- Gibbs' third paper
- Practical applications and Gibbs energy (G)
- Dissemination of Gibbs' work
- The 2nd Law, entropy, and the chemists
- Clausius: the kinetic theory of gases
- Maxwell: the rise of statistical mechanics
- Boltzmann: the probabilistic interpretation of entropy
- Shannon: entropy and information theory.