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A Commentary on Thermodynamics Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Day, William A. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1461264340     ISBN-13: 9781461264347
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE: $52.24  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational
- Science | Mechanics - Thermodynamics
Dewey: 530.1
Series: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.37 lbs) 97 pages
 
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The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorporates the effects of heat conduction and intertia, and proving appropriate results about the governing differential equations of this field theory. Even in the simplest one-dimensional case it is a nontrivial task to carry through the details of this program, and many challenging problems remain open.
 
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