Ebook: Entropy and energy: A universal competition
Author: Weiss Wolf, Müller Ingo
- Genre: Physics // Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Tags: Entropy., Thermodynamics., Force and energy., Chemistry Physical and theoretical., Mathematics., Applications of Mathematics., Engineering Thermodynamics Heat and Mass Transfer., Statistical Physics Dynamical Systems and Complexity., Engineering general.
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg & Co. KG
- City: Dordrecht
- Language: English
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Provides an introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. This book gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry, and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology.
Abstract: Provides an introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. This book gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry, and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology