Thermodynamics Fundamental Principles and Applications /

• Main Authors: Saggion, Antonio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Faraldo, Rossella (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pierno, Matteo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: UNITEXT for Physics,
• Subjects: Thermodynamics.; Physical chemistry.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Low temperature physics.; Low temperatures.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Computational complexity.; Physical Chemistry.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Low Temperature Physics.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Complexity.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics. It is divided into four parts, the first of which equips readers with a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics of equilibrium states and of their evolution. The second part applies these principles to a series...

Table of Contents:

• I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
• 1. The macroscopic observer
• 2. The concept of empirical temperature
• 3. The first Principle of Thermodynamics
• 4. The second Principle of Thermodynamics
• 5. Efficiency of thermal engines
• 6. The Fundamental Relation and the thermodynamic potentials
• 7. Maxwell Relations
• II. APPLICATIONS
• 8. One component Systems
• 9. van der Waals equation
• 10.Phase transitions
• 11.Surface Systems
• 12.Electrostatic Fields
• 13.Magnetic Fields
• 4.Thermodynamics of radiation
• 15.Osmotic phenomena and complex fluids
• 16.Low temperatures
• III. IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES
• 17.Irreversible processes
• 18.Thermodynamics of continua
• IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Bibliography
• V. ANALYTICAL LIST
• VI. APPENDIXES
• A. Appendix 1. Two useful mathematical relations
• B. Appendix 2. The pressure exerted by a particle gas
• C. Appendix 3. M. Planck and the problem of black-body radiation
• D. Appendix 4. Thermodynamics and Information.