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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Preface ; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction ; Entropy in Classical Thermodynamics: The Importance of Reversibility ; THE FOUNDING DEFINITION OF ENTROPY; HEAT CAPACITY IS REQUIRED TO CALCULATE THE ENTROPY CHANGE IN DISCRETE HEAT TRANSFERS; REVERSIBILITY; Heat vs. Work ; More on Reversibility ; More a Matter of Lost Work Than of Waste Heat ; SHIFTING THE PERSPECTIVE FROM HEAT TO WORK; Entropy in Statistical Mechanics ; THE CONCEPT OF "MICROSTATES" AIMS TO DESCRIBE ENTROPY IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL CHANGE THAT OCCURS IN THE SYSTEM WHEN SOME PROCESS MODIFIES IT |
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THE BOLTZMANN ENTROPYTHE GIBBS ENTROPY; CONSTRAINTS LIMIT SPREADING AND THUS REDUCE ENTROPY; The Effect of Temperature ; From Nature's Tendency To Statistical Mechanics ; Distributions of Particles and Energy ; THE PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENT OF INDEPENDENT PARTICLES; NON-INDEPENDENT PARTICLES: THE CONFIGURATIONAL INTEGRAL; THE BOLTZMANN FACTOR: ENTROPY AS A MEASURE OF EQUILIBRATION, STABILITY, AND INERTNESS; THE DOMINATING CONFIGURATION: FLUCTUATIONS AND THE BOLTZMANN FACTOR; Boltzmann Entropy & Equilibrium in Non-Isolated Systems |
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MICROCANONICAL (ISOENERGETIC) AND CANONICAL (ISOTHERMAL) ENSEMBLESTHE ROLE OF THE HELMHOLTZ FREE ENERGY IN CANONICAL (ISOTHERMAL) CONDITIONS; THE GIBBS FREE ENERGY IS USED IN MANY EVERYDAY (ISOBARIC) CONDITIONS; OPEN SYSTEMS; GENERAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MACROSCOPIC AND THE MICROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF THE SYSTEM; Entropy Increase as Tendency: Drive and Effector ; The Probabilistic Driver and the Role of Restraints ; The Motional Effector ; Spreading & Sharing is a Common Outcome of a Physical Function Levelling Down Available Energy |
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Changes of Entropy: The Fundamental Equation and the Chemical Potential THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION FOR THERMODYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF OPEN SYSTEMS; THE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; IN REAL SYSTEMS, THE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL IS MEASURED IN RELATIVE TERMS; OTHER FEATURES OF THE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; SPONTANEOUS CHANGES AND THE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; INTRODUCING THE RELATION BETWEEN SPONTANEOUS CHANGES AND THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION; Instances of Entropy Change ; EQUILIBRIUM IS THE REFERENCE FOR SPONTANEOUS CHANGES |
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INDEPENDENT CHANGES IN THE EXTENSIVE STATE FUNCTION OF EACH TERM OF THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONCHEMICAL POTENTIAL: CONCENTRATION & INTERACTION EFFECTS; The Limits of the Spreading and Sharing Metaphor ; Some Special Instances of Entropy Change ; Quantization ; The Role of Probability in Defining Entropy ; Outlines of a Verbal Account of the Thermodynamic Entropy for a Pedagogical Approach ; NOTES; References ; SUBJECT INDEX |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Entropy.
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Thermodynamics.
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Thermodynamics
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entropy.
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thermodynamics.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- Thermodynamics.
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Entropy
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Thermodynamics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781681083933 |
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1681083930 |
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