Overview
- Introductory textbook introducing the concept of competition of entropy and energy with various examples
- Thermodynamcis textbook explaining the roles of entropy and energy as prime movers of nature
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (IMM)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
"Entropy and Energy- a Universal Competition" is a students textbook as well as a scientific monograph. The concepts of entropy and energy embody the effects of random walk in a body and of deterministic strife respectively, and are therefore often in competition. The 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. The works of the thermodynamic pioneers are presented, in particular Clausius, Carathéodory, Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Planck. The laws of thermodynamics and their limitations are discussed; also the pertinacious Gibbs paradox. The reader has numerous possibilities to influence the programs and thus develop an understanding for the thermodynamic principles.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is a wonderful book. In 263 pages, Müller and Weiss provide a superb, all-round, profusely illustrated review of thermodynamics, from its origins and conceptual foundations to its contemporary statistical physics aspects, and to some of its more recent applications in such areas as meteorology and mathematical sociology. … Given the accessibility of the material I’d certainly recommend it to advanced undergraduate students from a wide range of sciences." (Dean Rickles, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 j)
"The authors of the present book understand energy and entropy – or loosely termed ‘cause and chance’ – as two parameters being in a universal competition. … The book may be read by newcomers in thermodynamics … ." (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1116 (18), 2007)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entropy and Energy
Book Subtitle: A Universal Competition
Authors: Ingo Müller, Wolf Weiss
Series Title: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32380-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24281-9Published: 15 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32380-8Published: 15 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1860-6245
Series E-ISSN: 1860-6253
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 274
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applications of Mathematics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Complex Systems, Thermodynamics, Engineering, general, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems