Wild, Krystal (2012) Advanced thermodynamics. Library Press, Delhi, India. ISBN 978-81-323-2454-6
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Abstract
In science, thermodynamics (from the Greek θέρμη therme, meaning "heat" and δύναμις, dynamis, meaning force) is the study of energy conversion between heat and mechanical work, and subsequently the macroscopic variables such as temperature, volume and pressure. Historically, thermodynamics developed out of a need to increase the efficiency of early steam engines, particularly through the work of French physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1824) who believed that engine efficiency was the key that could help France win the Napoleonic Wars. The first to give a concise definition of the subject was Scottish physicist William Thomson who in 1854 stated that: Thermo-dynamics is the subject of the relation of heat to forces acting between contiguous parts of bodies, and the relation of heat to electrical agency. Two fields of thermodynamics emerged in the following decades. Statistical thermodynamics, or statistical mechanics, (1860) concerned itself with statistical predictions of the collective motion of particles from their microscopic behavior, while chemical thermodynamics (1873) studies the nature of the role of entropy in the process of chemical reaction. The starting point for most thermodynamic considerations are the laws of thermodynamics, which postulate that energy can be exchanged between physical systems as heat or work. They also postulate the existence of a quantity named entropy, which can be defined for any isolated system that is in thermodynamic equilibrium.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Nurfarahin Jasmine See Abdullah |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2022 02:06 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2022 02:06 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3062 |
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