Thermodynamics - Fundamental Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics. It is divided into four parts, the first of which equips readers with a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics of equilibrium states and of their evolution. The second part applies these principles to a series of generalized situations, presenting applications that are of interest both in their own right and in terms of demonstrating how thermodynamics, as a theory of principle, relates to different fields. In turn, the third part focuses on non-equilibrium configurations and the dynamics of natural processes. It discusses both discontinuous and continuous systems, highlighting the interference among non-equilibrium processes, and the nature of stationary states and of fluctuations in isolated systems. Lastly, part four introduces the relation between physics and information theory, which constitutes a new frontier in fundamental research.

The book includes step-by-step exercises, with solutions, to help readers to gain a fuller understanding of the subjects, and also features a series of appendices providing useful mathematical formulae. Reflecting the content of modern university courses on thermodynamics, it is a valuable resource for students and young scientists in the fields of physics, chemistry, and engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Macroscopic Systems and Empirical Temperature (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 3-11
The First Principle of Thermodynamics (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 13-23
The Second Principle of Thermodynamics (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 25-54
The Fundamental Relation and the Thermodynamic Potentials (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 55-79
Maxwell Relations (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 81-94
Front Matter ....Pages 95-95
General Properties of Gaseous Systems (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 97-119
Phase Transitions (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 121-138
van der Waals Equation (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 139-168
Surface Systems (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 169-192
Electrostatic Field (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 193-206
Magnetic Field (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 207-218
Thermodynamics of Radiation (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 219-249
Third Law of Thermodynamics (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 251-258
Front Matter ....Pages 259-259
Irreversible Processes: Fundamentals (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 261-291
Irreversible Processes: Applications (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 293-331
Thermodynamics of Continua (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 333-371
Front Matter ....Pages 373-373
Introduction to the Role of Information in Physics (Antonio Saggion, Rossella Faraldo, Matteo Pierno)....Pages 375-392
Back Matter ....Pages 393-432