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This text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy - <br />
a central concept in thermodynamics, but one which is often regarded as the most <br />
difficult to grasp. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical <br />
view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept, <br />
and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical <br />
treatment which provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to <br />
disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order <br />
at low temperatures. Dugdale includes here a brief account of some of the more <br />
intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and <br />
superfluidity. "Entropy and Its Physical Meaning" also includes a number of <br />
exercises which can be used for both self- learning and class work. It is <br />
intended to provide a complete understanding of the concept of entropy, making <br />
it valuable reading for undergraduates in physics, physical sciences and <br />
engineering, and for students studying thermodynamics within other science <br />
courses such as meteorology, biology and medicine.<br />
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Table of Contents<br />
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Preface <br />
1 Temperature and heat: some historical developments 3<br />
2 Temperature and heat: a different approach 11<br />
3 The first law of thermodynamics 19<br />
4 The second law of thermodynamics 27<br />
5 Entropy: how it is measured and how it is used 39<br />
6 Entropy in irreversible changes 57<br />
7 The statistical approach: a specific example 67<br />
8 General ideas and development: the definition of a microstate 79<br />
9 Temperature and entropy in statistical mechanics 93<br />
10 Application to solids 103<br />
11 Application to gases: (1) the classical approximation 115<br />
12 Application to gases: (2) Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac gases 127<br />
13 Fluctuations and Maxwell's demon 139<br />
14 The third law of thermodynamics 145<br />
15 Absolute temperature and low temperatures 165<br />
16 The third law of thermodynamics and the unattainability of absolute zero <br />
177<br />
Notes 181<br />
Answers to exercises 185<br />
Reading list 193<br />
Index 195<br />
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Product Details<br />
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* ISBN: 0748405682<br />
* ISBN-13: 9780748405688<br />
* Format: Hardcover, 208pp<br />
* Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.<br />
* Pub. Date: August 1996<br />
* Edition Description: REV<br />
* Edition Number: 2<br />
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