| A Commentary on Thermodynamics Contributor(s): Day, William Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387966153 ISBN-13: 9780387966151 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Mechanics - Thermodynamics - Mathematics - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 536.7 |
| LCCN: 87023360 |
| Series: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 112 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. |