| 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 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| 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" (0.37 lbs) 97 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |