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A New Perspective on Thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by Bernard H. Lavenda


Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
228
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This book introduces a new outlook on thermodynamics. It brings the theory up to the present time and indicates areas of further development with the union of information theory and the theory of means and their inequalities.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages 1-15
The Predecessors of Carnot....Pages 1-15
Thermodynamics from Carnot to Clausius and Kelvin....Pages 17-46
Thermodynamics in a Carnot Equation....Pages 47-70
Equivalence of First and Second Laws....Pages 71-115
Work from Nonequilibrium Systems....Pages 117-143
Nonextensive Thermodynamics....Pages 145-193
Back Matter....Pages 1-13

✦ Subjects


Termodinámica;Termodinámica -- Historia


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