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A Commentary on Thermodynamics

A Commentary on Thermodynamics

Day, William A.

Paperback

Series: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, Book 32

Physics

ISBN10: 1461264340
ISBN13: 9781461264347
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 7 2012
Pages: 97
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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