Essential classical thermodynamics / Ulf W. Gedde.

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 phys...

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Main Author: Gedde, U. W. (Ulf W.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:SpringerBriefs in physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1: An introduction to thermodynamics and the first law
  • Chapter2: The second and third laws
  • Chapter3: Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies
  • Chapter4: A comprehensive view of the state functions including Maxwell's relations
  • Chapter5: Chemical potential and partial molar properties
  • Chapter6: One component systems: transitions and phase diagrams
  • Chapter7: Solutions, phase-separated systems colligative properties and phase diagrams
  • Chapter8: Chemical equilibrium
  • Chapter9: Thermodynamics problems
  • Chapter10: Solutions to problems
  • Chapter11: Mathematics useful for the thermodynamics.