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Basic thermodynamics /

It is well known that thermodynamics presents students with particular difficulties. They find the concepts evasive and the methods obscure. These problems arise because it is traditional to emphasize at the outset how general thermodynamics is. Unfortunately, when ideas are introduced in an unspeci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carrington, Gerald
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:Oxford science publications
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The ideal gas temperature
  • 3. Processes in ideal gas systems
  • 4. Entropy of an ideal gas
  • 5. Zeroth and first laws
  • 6. The second law
  • 7. Reversible and irreversible work processes
  • 8. Electric and magnetic work processes
  • 9. The Gibbs formulation
  • 10. The potentials
  • 11. Equations of state
  • 12. Transformations of matter.