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Entropy and energy: A universal competition

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Provides an introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. This book gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry, and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology.

Abstract: Provides an introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. This book gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry, and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology

Author(s): Weiss, Wolf; Müller, Ingo
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg & Co. KG
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 267
City: Dordrecht
Tags: Entropy.;Thermodynamics.;Force and energy.;Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.;Mathematics.;Applications of Mathematics.;Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.;Engineering, general.

Content: Origin of entropy in the work of Clausius --
Entropy in the work of Carathéodory. Absolute temperature --
Entropy in the work of Boltzmann --
Enthalpy and equations of state --
Gases and Rubber --
Statistical thermodynamics --
Entropy and energy in competition --
Planetary atmospheres --
Entropy of mixing. Osmosis --
Phase transition --
Phase diagrams --
Chemical reactions --
Shape memory alloys --
The third law of thermodynamics. Capitulation of entropy --
The zeroth law of thermodynamics --
kinetic and thermodynamic temperatures --
Gibbs paradox and degenerate gases --
Thermodynamics of irreversible processes (TIP) --
Radiation thermodynamics --
Dissipative entropy source of the earth --
Socio-thermodynamics --
integration and segregation in a population --
History of thermodynamics --
Appendix. Equation of balance --
References and annotations.