Understanding Energy: Energy, Entropy And Thermodynamics For Everyman - R Stephen Berry

Understanding Energy: Energy, Entropy And Thermodynamics For Everyman

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
1991
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-02-0679-6 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Develops the concepts of energy and entropy from first principles. The book discusses the macroscopic properties of energy and entropy, and the constitutive properties of heat capacities and from these develops the concept of thermodynamic efficiency.
This book begins with primary concepts of atomic and molecular structure and of how atoms, molecules and bulk matter store and exchange energy. In the next stage, the macroscopic properties of energy and entropy, and of the constitutive properties of heat capacities are examined. From these, the concept of thermodynamic efficiency is developed. Then the notions of thermodynamic potentials and availability are introduced. With this set of concepts, the analysis of efficient energy use is presented.

Force and work; kinetic and potential energy; the equation of state and the representation of state changes and work; dilemmas of energy and the microstructure of matter; wave properties of matter; waves, energy levels and densities of states; molecules and chemical bonds - energy storage in molecules; energy and the first law of thermodynamics; energy relations in chemical process - combustion; microstates, macrostates and Zermolo's paradox; a microscopic view of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics; the thermal definition of entropy and macroscopic statement of the second law of thermodynamics; the Carnot engine and efficiency; free energies and criteria of merit; availability and criteria of merit.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.1991
Verlagsort Singapore
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Thermodynamik
ISBN-10 981-02-0679-8 / 9810206798
ISBN-13 978-981-02-0679-6 / 9789810206796
Zustand Neuware
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