Understanding energy : energy, entropy, and thermodynamics for everyman
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Understanding energy : energy, entropy, and thermodynamics for everyman
World Scientific, c1991
- : pbk.
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book begins with primary concepts of atomic and molecular structure and of how atoms, molecules and bulk matter store and exchange energy. In the next stage, the macroscopic properties of energy and entropy, and of the constitutive properties of heat capacities are examined. From these, the concept of thermodynamic efficiency is developed. Then the notions of thermodynamic potentials and availability are introduced. With this set of concepts, the analysis of efficient energy use is presented.
Table of Contents
- Force and work
- kinetic and potential energy
- the equation of state and the representation of state changes and work
- dilemmas of energy and the microstructure of matter
- wave properties of matter
- waves, energy levels and densities of states
- molecules and chemical bonds - energy storage in molecules
- energy and the first law of thermodynamics
- energy relations in chemical process - combustion
- microstates, macrostates and Zermolo's paradox
- a microscopic view of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
- the thermal definition of entropy and macroscopic statement of the second law of thermodynamics
- the Carnot engine and efficiency
- free energies and criteria of merit
- availability and criteria of merit.
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