β Scribed by Enrico Fermi
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Preface
Introduction
I. Thermodynamic Systems
1. The state of a system and its transformations
2. Ideal or perfect gases
II. The First Law of Thermodynamics
3. The statement of the first law of thermodynamics
4. The application of the first law to systems whose states can be represented on a (V, p) diagram
5. The application of the first law to gases
6. Adiabatic transformations of a gas
III. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
7. The statement of the second law of thermodynamics
8. The Carnot cycle
9. The absolute thermodynamic temperature
10. Thermal engines
IV. The Entropy
11. Some properties of cycles
12. The entropy
13. Some further properties of the entropy
14. The entropy of a system whose states can be represented on a (V, p) diagram
15. The Clapeyron equation
16. The Van der Waals equation
V. Thermodynamic Potentials
17. The free energy
18. The thermodynamic potential at constant pressure
19. The phase rule
20. Thermodynamics of the reversible electric cell
VI. Gaseous Reactions
21. Chemical equilibria in gases
22. The Van't Hoff reaction box
23. Another proof of the equation of gaseous equilibria
24. Discussion of gaseous equilibria; the principle of Le Chatelier
VII. The Thermodynamics of Dilute Solutions
25. Dilute solutions
26. Osmotic pressure
27. Chemical equilibria in solutions
28. The distribution of a solute between two phases
20. The vapor pressure, the boiling point, and the freez-freezing point of a solution
VIII. The Entropy Constant
30. The Nernst theorem
31. Nernst's theorem applied to solids
32. The entropy constant of gases
33. Thermal ionization of a gas; the thermionic effect
Index
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