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Thermal physics / C. B. P. Finn.

By: Finn, C. B. P. (Colin B. P.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Student physics series.Publisher: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986Description: [viii, 320] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0710208030; 0710206607 .Subject(s): ThermodynamicsDDC classification: 536.7
Contents:
Temperature -- Reversible processes and work -- The first law of thermodynamics -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Entropy -- The thermodynamic potentials and the Maxwell relations -- Some general thermodynamic relations -- Magnetic systems, radiation, rubber hands and electrolytic cells -- Change of phase -- Open systems and the chemical potential -- The third law of thermodynamics.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store 536.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00160334
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store 536.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00036014
Total holds: 0

Bibliography: (page 256) and index.

Temperature -- Reversible processes and work -- The first law of thermodynamics -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Entropy -- The thermodynamic potentials and the Maxwell relations -- Some general thermodynamic relations -- Magnetic systems, radiation, rubber hands and electrolytic cells -- Change of phase -- Open systems and the chemical potential -- The third law of thermodynamics.

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CHOICE Review

This English undergraduate textbook on thermodynamics contains no statistical mechanics or kinetic theory, thus departing from the usual format of undergraduate textbooks. It is compact and has small but adequate line drawings. It belongs to a series designed to provide affordable basic physics textbooks, an objective that has more or less survived the Atlantic crossing. All standard thermodynamics is covered well and clearly, with applications to real gases, low-temperature physics, magnetisim, and black-body radiation. Rubber elasticity is a novel example. The book is clearly written, well organized, and has a small number of good problems with brief answers to all of them. Undergraduates majoring in the physical sciences will find this a useful book. For college libraries.-P.G. Klemens, University of Connecticut