ENGLISH

A Commentary on Thermodynamics

By William Alan Day (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1988
ISBN
978-1-4612-6434-7, 978-1-4419-8550-7
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-8550-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1509793 bytes)
Series
Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy 32
Edition
1
Pages
97\105
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Mathematical and Computational PhysicsThermodynamics;Theoretical

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.

Similar books