Ebook: Energy and Entropy: Equilibrium to Stationary States

This book is an overview of classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, non-equilibrium and stationary state thermodynamics. This comprehensive work is the first book outside of specialized monographs to approach flow systems and irreversible thermodynamics for advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate courses in thermodynamics in chemistry, physics, biophysics, and engineering programs. Instructors for those courses will find in this book transparent models that clarify a broad range of difficult physical and mathematical concepts, including:

• Cooligative properties and solution thermodynamics
• Chemical potential for equilibrium systems
• Continuous energy systems
• Transition to non-equilibrium systems through statistical chemical kinetics
• Bose–Einstein statistics in conjunction with unimolecular reaction rate theory
• Irreversible thermodynamics with both time and spatial dependence
• Basic stationary state processes.

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This book presents the various branches of thermodynamics - classical, statistical, and others - and kinetics in a lucid manner that will appeal both to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The mathematical treatment is neither overly elaborate nor absent, but has been illustrated by examples from biology, physics, and other disciplines.The models drawn from diverse areas should make it attractive to readers seeking a clearer physical understanding of these fields and how they interrelate.Features include: * worked examples * exercises * solutions to some of the exercises, available to all readers * solutions to all the exercises, available to instructors.