Mere Thermodynamics

Don S. Lemons is a professor of physics at Bethel College and the author of Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Preface
1. Definitions
1.1. Thermodynamics
1.2. System
1.3. Boundary, Environment, and Interactions
1.4. States and State Variables
1.5. Equations of State
1.6. Work
1.7. Heat
Problems
2. Equilibrium
2.1. Equilibrium
2.2. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
2.3. Empirical Temperature
2.4. Traditional Temperature Scales
2.5. Equilibrium Processes
Problems
3. Heat
3.1. Quantifying Heat
3.2. Calorimetry
3.3. What is Heat?
Problems
4. The First Law
4.1. Count Rumford
4.2. Joule's Experiments
4.3. The First Law of Thermodynamics
4.4. Thermodynamic Cycles
4.5. Cycle Adjustment
Problems
5. The Second Law
5.1. Sadi Carnot
5.2. Statements of the Second Law
5.3. Equivalence and Inequivalence
5.4. Reversible Heat Engines
5.5. Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
Problems
6. The First and Second Laws
6.1. Rudolph Clausius
6.2. Thermodynamic Temperature
6.3. Clausius's Theorem
Problems
7. Entropy
7.1. The Meaning of Reversibility
7.2. Entropy
7.3. Entropy Generation in Irreversible Processes
7.4. The Entropy Generator
7.5. Entropy Corollaries
7.6. Thermodynamic Arrow of Time
Problems
8. Fluid Variables
8.1. What Is a Fluid?
8.2. Reversible Work
8.3. Fundamental Constraint
8.4. Enthalpy
8.5. Helmholtz and Gibbs Free Energies
8.6. Partial Derivative Rules
8.4. Thermodynamic Coeffi cients
8.8. Heat Capacities
Problems
9. Simple Fluid Systems
9.1. The Ideal Gas
9.2. Room-Temperature Elastic Solid
9.3. Cavity Radiation
Problems
10. Nonfluid Systems
10.1. Nonfluid Variables
10.2. The Theoretician's Rubber Band
10.3. Paramagnetism
10.4. Surfaces
10.5. Chemical Potential
10.6. Multivariate Systems
Problems
11. Equilibrium and Stability
11.1. Mechanical and Thermal Systems
11.2. Principle of Maximum Entropy
11.3. Other Stability Criteria
11.4. Intrinsic Stability of a Fluid
Problems
12. Two-Phase Systems
12.1. Phase Diagrams
12.2. Van der Waals Equation of State
12.3. Two-Phase Transition
12.4. Maxwell Construction
12.5. Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
12.6. Critical Point
Problems
13. The Third Law
13.1. The Principle of Thomsen and Berthelot
13.2. Entropy Change
13.3. Unattainability
13.4. Absolute Entropy
Problems
Appendixes
A. Physical Constants and Standard Definitions
B. Catalog of 21 Simple Cycles
C. Glossary of Terms
D. Selected Worked Problems
E. Answers to Problems
Annotated Bibliography
Index