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principles characterizing physical and chemical processes
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Thermodynamics is a self-contained analysis of physical and chemical processes, based on classical thermodynamic principles. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental principles, with a conbination of theory and practice, and demonstrating their application to a variety of disciplines. Included in this work are new approaches to irreversible processes, electromagnetic effects, adsorption phenomena, self-assembly, the origin of phase diagrams, critical phenomena, and Caratȟodory's treatment of the second law. This book will appeal to graduate students and professional chemists and physicists who wish to acquire a more sophisticated overview of thermodynamics and related subject matter. Easy-to-understand style appeals to both chemists and physicists Discusses treatment of electromagnetic phenomena and adsorption of surface gases surfaces Extensively revised to cater for advanced courses in thermodynamics.
Chapter 1. Fundamentals -- -- Chapter 2. Equilibrium in ideal systems -- -- Chapter 3. Characterization of nonideal solutions -- -- Chapter 4. Thermodynamic properties of electrolytes -- -- Chapter 5. Thermodynamic properties of materials in externally applied fields -- -- Chapter 6. Irreversible thermodynamics -- -- Chapter 7. Critical phenomena -- -- Chapter 8. A final speculation about ultimate temperatures a fourth law of thermodynamics -- -- Chapter 9. Reprise to the second law. Mathematical proof of Carathéodory's theorem and resulting interpretations.
Previous edition: San Diego, Calif.: Academic, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2007
136895:137029 Elsevier Science & Technology