Product Details: Entropy and Its Physical Meaning
| Author: | J. S. Dugdale |
| Format: | Hardcover: 198 pages. |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (09/01/1996) |
| ISBN: | 0748405682 |
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Publisher Notes: Entropy and Its Physical Meaning
Preface 1 Temperature and heat: some historical developments 3 2 Temperature and heat: a different approach 11 3 The first law of thermodynamics 19 4 The second law of thermodynamics 27 5 Entropy: how it is measured and how it is used 39 6 Entropy in irreversible changes 57 7 The statistical approach: a specific example 67 8 General ideas and development: the definition of a microstate 79 9 Temperature and entropy in statistical mechanics 93 10 Application to solids 103 11 Application to gases: (1) the classical approximation 115 12 Application to gases: (2) Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac gases 127 13 Fluctuations and Maxwell's demon 139 14 The third law of thermodynamics 145 15 Absolute temperature and low temperatures 165 16 The third law of thermodynamics and the unattainability of absolute zero 177 Notes 181 Answers to exercises 185 Reading list 193 Index 195
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