Approaches to Entropy

This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy. The book does not follow a rigid temporal order of events, nor it is meant to be comprehensive. It includes solved examples for a solid understanding. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tame, Jeremy R. H. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Thermodynamics.
Heat engineering.
Heat transfer.
Mass transfer.
Biochemistry.
Fluid mechanics.
Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.
Engineering Fluid Dynamics.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • General thermodynamics
  • Carnot and Clausius
  • Maxwell and Boltzmann
  • Gibbs
  • Partition functions and ensembles
  • Planck
  • Einstein
  • Shannon
  • Nernst
  • On Entropy as Mixed-up-ness
  • Problems.

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