Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this authoritative milestone in the foundational development of thermodynamics provides a unique reference for all physicists and engineers. Basic concepts and applications are discussed in complete detail with attention to generality and logical consistency, removing ambiguities and limitations of traditional presentations. Worked-out examples and end-of-chapter problems illustrate the use of energy and entropy balances as powerful analytical keystones in physics and engineering.
The text provides material for undergraduate and graduate courses. At the introductory level, it covers heat engines, stable-equilibrium-state models for ideal-gas, incompressible-fluid and solid behaviors, heat, work and bulk-flow interactions, thermodynamic efficiency, energy conversion systems, energy, and availability/ At the intermediate level, it covers ideal and nonideal mixtures, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, and combustion.
At the advanced level, the unique non-traditional order of exposition of the basic concepts and principles (system, property, state, process, first law, energy, equilibrium, stable equilibrium, second law, entropy) allows rigorous general definitions of energy and entropy valid for all systems (large and small, few- and many- particles) and all states (stable and non-stable equilibrium, as well as non-equilibrium). In particular, entropy is defined before and independently of the definitions of temperature and heat, and of the simple-system model for many-particle systems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
1. How to Study with This Book
2. Kinematics and Dynamics
3. Energy
4. Stability of Equilibrium
5. Adiabatic Availability
6. Available Energy
7. Entropy
8. Stable-Equilibrium-State Principle
9. Temperature
10. Total Potentials
11. Pressure
12. Work and Heat
13. Energy versus Entropy Graphs
14. Summary of Basic Concepts
15. Heat Engines
16. Systems with Volume as the Only Parameter
17. Simple Systems
18. Phase Rule
19. Thermophysical Properties of Pure Substances
20. Ideal Gases, Liquids, and Solids
21. Equations of State
22. Bulk Flow
23. Conversion Devices
24. Availability Functions
25. Energy Conversion Systems
26. Thermophysical Properties of Mixtures
27. Ideal-Gas Mixtures and Solutions
28. Nonideal Mixtures
29. Chemical Reactions
30. Chemical Equilibrium
31. Combustion
Epilogue
Physical Constants and Unit Conversion Tables
Tables of Properties
Solutions to Problems
Index
