This book is a concise, readable, yet authoritative primer of basic classic thermodynamics. Many students have difficulty with thermodynamics, and find at some stage of their careers in academia or industry that they have forgotten what they learned, or never really understood these fundamental physical laws. As the title of the book suggests, the author has distilled the subject down to its essentials, using many simple and clear illustrations, instructive examples, and key equations and simple derivations to elucidate concepts. Based on many years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels, “Essential Classical Thermodynamics” is intended to provide a positive learning experience, and to empower the reader to explore the many possibilities for applying thermodynamics in other fields of science, engineering, and even economics where energy plays a central role. Thermodynamics is fun when you understand it!
Author(s): Ulf W. Gedde
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 108
City: Stockholm, Sweden
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Thermodynamics and the First Law......Page 9
Chapter 2: The Second and Third Laws......Page 21
Chapter 3: Gibbs and Helmholtz Free Energies......Page 29
Chapter 4: A Comprehensive View of the State Functions Including Maxwell Relations......Page 33
Chapter 5: Chemical Potential and Partial Molar Properties......Page 37
Chapter 6: One-Component Systems: Transitions and Phase Diagrams......Page 43
Chapter 7: Solutions, Phase-Separated Systems, Colligative Properties and Phase Diagrams......Page 52
Chapter 8: Chemical Equilibrium......Page 71
First Law......Page 80
Chemical Potential and Phase Equilibria......Page 81
Colligative Properties......Page 82
Phase Diagrams......Page 83
Chapter 10: Solutions to Problems......Page 84
Chapter 11: Mathematics Useful for the Thermodynamics......Page 98
References......Page 105
Index......Page 106
