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Entropy and Energy

A Universal Competition, Incl CD-ROM, Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics

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ISBN/EAN: 9783540242819
Sprache: Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Beschreibung

InhaltsangabeClausius.- Efficiency of a Carnot engine.- First Law.- Second Law.- Entropy Inequality.- Gibbs Equation and the Value of an Integrability Condition.- Entropy Growth.- Caratheodory.- Inacessibility of States.- Boltzmann.- Kinetic Interpretation of Entropy.- Extrapolation to S=klnW.- Planck.- Quantization of Phase Space.- Kinetic Temperature.- Configurational entropy of a gas and a rubber molecule.- Microstates and distributions.- A priori equal probability.- Equilibrium as a homogeneous state.- Entropy Forces.- Entropy-Induced Elasticity.- Entropy and disorder.- Entropy and gravitational energy.- Free energy.- Planetary atmosphere.- Light hot planets and heavy cold planets. Osmosis.- Entropy of mixing.- Pfeffer tube.- Entropy and van der Waals energy.- Condensation and crystallization.- Nernst.- Third law. Entropy and chemical energy.- Additive constants in energy and entropy.- Heat of reaction.- Law of mass-action.- Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia.- Photosynthesis.- Thermodynamics of irreversible processes.- Principle of local equilibrium.- Clausius-Duhem inequality.- Phenomenological laws of Fourier and Navier Stokes.- Extended Thermodynamics.- Balance Equations of Moments.- Onsager Hypothesis.- Light Scattering.- Entropy Flux.- Thermodynamic and kinetic temperatures.- Zeroth Law.- Prigogine.- Principle of minimal entropy production.- Minimax principle of entropy production.- Entropy in sociology and economics.