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[Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics] Entropy and Energy || History of thermodynamics

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Book ID
127002127
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2005
Tongue
German
Weight
536 KB
Edition
2005
Category
Article
ISBN-13
9783540242819

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✦ Synopsis

Entropy and Energy- a Universal Competition is a students textbook as well as a scientific monograph. The concepts of entropy and energy embody the effects of random walk in a body and of deterministic strife respectively, and are therefore often in competition. The book gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology. The works of the thermodynamic pioneers are presented, in particular Clausius, CarathΓ©odory, Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Planck. The laws of thermodynamics and their limitations are discussed; also the pertinacious Gibbs paradox. The accompanying CD provides instructive visualizations of the entropy-elastic spring and of phase transitions in fluids and shape memory alloys. The reader has numerous possibilities to influence the programs and thus develop an understanding for the thermodynamic principles.

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