Entropy and Energy A Universal Competition /

• Main Authors: Müller, Ingo (Author), Weiss, Wolf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Thermodynamics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Engineering.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Applications of Mathematics.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Engineering, general.

"Entropy and Energy- a Universal Competition" is a students textbook as well as a scientific monograph. The concepts of entropy and energy embody the effects of random walk in a body and of deterministic strife respectively, and are therefore often in competition. The book gives instructiv...

Table of Contents:

• Origin of entropy in the work of Clausius
• Entropy in the work of Carathéodory. Absolute temperature
• Entropy in the work of Boltzmann
• Enthalpy and equations of state
• Gases and Rubber
• Statistical thermodynamics
• Entropy and energy in competition
• Planetary atmospheres
• Entropy of mixing. Osmosis
• Phase transition
• Phase diagrams
• Chemical reactions
• Shape memory alloys
• The third law of thermodynamics. Capitulation of entropy
• The zeroth law of thermodynamics — kinetic and thermodynamic temperatures
• Gibbs paradox and degenerate gases
• Thermodynamics of irreversible processes (TIP)
• Radiation thermodynamics
• Dissipative entropy source of the earth
• Socio-thermodynamics — integration and segregation in a population
• History of thermodynamics
• Appendix. Equation of balance
• References and annotations.