Overview
- Fascinating and entertaining Textbook - Companion for graduate students and researchers in engineering, physics and chemistry
- New view and understanding view of the entropy principle
- Based on the recently published Lieb-Yngvason Theory of Thermodynamics
- Author has taught thermodynamics and heta and mass transfer to students of engineering, chemistry, and physics for years
- Entropy- the key concept of thermodynamics finally newly developed and understandable
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“This book attempts to describe the work of Elliott Lieb (mathematical physicist) and Jakob Yngvason (theoretical physicist) on entropy and the second law of thermodynamics from an axiomatic or logical point of view, without the need of the concept of temperature or heat engines. … a supplemental resource that can greatly enhance an understanding of entropy. Summing Up: Recommended. Primarily physics upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty, but also history of science graduate students … .” (J. Lambropoulos, Choice, Vol. 49 (2), October, 2011)
“The new book is written as supplementary material to existing textbooks in thermodynamics. It is primarily intended for students who find the traditional definition of entropy unsatisfactory. … The present book is accessible to undergraduate students as well as to other scientists and engineers interested in the fundamentals of thermodynamics.” (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1216, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Entropy Principle
Book Subtitle: Thermodynamics for the Unsatisfied
Authors: André Thess
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13349-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-13348-0Published: 04 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43613-0Published: 28 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-13349-7Published: 04 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 180
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics