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A Commentary on Thermodynamics

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. William Alan Day

    1. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

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Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy (STPHI, volume 32)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Nonlinear Thermoelasticity

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 1-10

  3. Simplification and Approximation

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 11-19

  4. Efficiency Within Nonlinear Thermoelasticity

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 20-27

  5. Efficiency Within Homogeneous and Dissipationless Thermoelasticity

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 28-42

  6. Efficiency Within Linearized Thermoelasticity

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 43-71

  7. Versions of a Second Law of Thermodynamics

    • William Alan Day
    Pages 72-92

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 93-97
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About this book

The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorporates the effects of heat conduction and intertia, and proving appropriate results about the governing differential equations of this field theory. Even in the simplest one-dimensional case it is a nontrivial task to carry through the details of this program, and many challenging problems remain open.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

    William Alan Day

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Commentary on Thermodynamics

  • Authors: William Alan Day

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8550-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96615-1Published: 08 December 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6434-7Published: 07 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8550-7Published: 08 September 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0081-3877

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 97

  • Topics: Thermodynamics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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