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Twenty lectures on thermodynamics / H. A. Buchdahl.

By: Buchdahl, H. A. (Hans Adolph), 1919-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. : Pergamon Press, 1975Description: vii, 106 p. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0080182992.Subject(s): ThermodynamicsDDC classification: 536.7
Contents:
Preliminary remarks -- Thermodynamic solutions -- States and transitions, adiabatic isolation, irreversibility -- The second law, entropy and the entropy principle -- The first law, energy and heat -- The zeroth law -- Entropy revisited:metrical entropy and absolute temperature -- Constitutive coordinates, characteristic functions -- The sign of T, the third law -- Pseudo states, equilibrium conditions, the phase rule -- The idea of applications of thermodynamics -- Pseudo states revisited:phenomenological theory of fluctuations, ensembles -- Microscopic structure and statistical thermodynamics -- The canonical ensemble -- The grand canonical ensemble, the constant a, the constant pressure ensemble -- The entropy principle, implications of the third law -- The quantum statistical canonical and grand canonical ensembles -- Semi classical gaseous systems -- Ideal fermion and boson gases -- Historical remarks, negative absolute temperatures.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 536.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00035938
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store 536.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00036004
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Includes index.

Preliminary remarks -- Thermodynamic solutions -- States and transitions, adiabatic isolation, irreversibility -- The second law, entropy and the entropy principle -- The first law, energy and heat -- The zeroth law -- Entropy revisited:metrical entropy and absolute temperature -- Constitutive coordinates, characteristic functions -- The sign of T, the third law -- Pseudo states, equilibrium conditions, the phase rule -- The idea of applications of thermodynamics -- Pseudo states revisited:phenomenological theory of fluctuations, ensembles -- Microscopic structure and statistical thermodynamics -- The canonical ensemble -- The grand canonical ensemble, the constant a, the constant pressure ensemble -- The entropy principle, implications of the third law -- The quantum statistical canonical and grand canonical ensembles -- Semi classical gaseous systems -- Ideal fermion and boson gases -- Historical remarks, negative absolute temperatures.