Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Applications: With Historical Annotations and Many Citations from Avogadro to Zermelo

by Wolfgang H. Müller and Ingo Müller

Book Overview

Prologue on ideal gases and incompressible fluids.- Objectives of thermodynamics and its equations of balance.- Constitutive equations.- Reversible processes and cycles. "p dV thermodynamics" for the calculation of thermodynamic engines.- Entropy.- Entropy as S=k lnW.- Steam engines and refrigerators.- Heat Transfer.- Mixtures, solutions, and alloys.- Chemically reacting mixtures.- Moist air.- Selected problems in thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642094112
• ISBN13: 9783642094118
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"