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A formal treatment of the consequences of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Carath�odory's formulation

✍ Scribed by Buchdahl, H. A.


Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1958
Weight
758 KB
Volume
152
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-3328

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