James Luscombe

Thermodynamics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an accessible yet thorough introduction to thermodynamics, suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Modern applications of thermodynamics are included throughout-something not offered to the same degree by existing texts in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429017889
• Artikelnr.: 54176730

Autorenporträt

James H. Luscombe is Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1983. After post-doctoral positions at the University of Toronto and Iowa State University, he joined the Research Laboratory of Texas Instruments, where he worked on the development of nanoelectronic devices, before joining the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994. He was Chair of the Department of Physics between 2003 and 2009. He teaches a wide variety of topics, including general relativity, statistical mechanics, mathematical methods, and quantum computation.

Inhaltsangabe

Thermodynamic Basics. 1. Concepts of thermodynamics. 2 Second law of
thermodynamics Direction of heat flow.3. Entropy. 4. Thermodynamic
potentials The four ways to say energy. 5. Thermodynamics of radiation. 6.
Phase and chemical equilibrium. 7 Statistical entropy From micro to macro.
8. The third law - You can't get to T = 0. 9. To this point. Additional
Topics in Thermodynamics. 10. Caratheodory formulation. 11. Negative
absolute temperature. 12. Thermodynamics of information. 13. Black hole
thermodynamics. 14. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. 16.Superconductors and
superfluids. Epilogue: Where to now?