Approaches to Entropy

Jeremy R. H. Tame (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-2314-0 (ISBN)

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This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does not follow a rigid temporal order of events, nor it is meant to be comprehensive. It includes solved examples for a solid understanding. The division into chapters under the names of key players in the development of the field is not intended to separate these individual contributions entirely, but to highlight their different approaches to entropy. This structure helps to provide a different view-point from other text-books on entropy.

Jeremy R. H. Tame is currently a professor at the Drug Design Laboratory at Yokohama City University in Japan. After graduating from Cambridge University in England, he moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Following a short period of work with Nobel Prize winner Max Perutz, he joined Kiyoshi Nagai’s group. His group focuses on biophysical studies of how proteins fold and function. His other research interests include x-ray crystallography, protein design and thermodynamics of protein–ligand binding.

General thermodynamics.- Carnot and Clausius.- Maxwell and Boltzmann.- Gibbs.- Partition functions and ensembles.- Planck.- Einstein.- Shannon.- Nernst.- On Entropy as Mixed-up-ness.- Problems.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	13 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 202 p. 38 illus., 13 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	981-13-2314-3 / 9811323143
ISBN-13	978-981-13-2314-0 / 9789811323140
Zustand	Neuware