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Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
Taschenbuch von Robert T. Hanlon
Sprache: Englisch

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In this text, the study of thermodynamics is manipulated against the normal course of study. While students and academics will learn the concepts, formulas, and laws of thermodynamics, they will also begin to understand the historical circumstance behind it all.
In this text, the study of thermodynamics is manipulated against the normal course of study. While students and academics will learn the concepts, formulas, and laws of thermodynamics, they will also begin to understand the historical circumstance behind it all.
Über den Autor
Dr. Robert T. Hanlon earned his Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Karlsruhe University in Germany. His professional career took him to Mobil Oil Research & Development Corporation, the Rohm and Haas Company, and then back to MIT where he is currently involved with their School of Chemical Engineering Practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Part 1 The Big Bang

  • 1: The Big Bang: the science

  • 2: The Big Bang: the discovery

  • Part 2 The Atom

  • 3: The Atom: the science

  • 4: The Atom: the discovery

  • Part 3 Energy and Conservation Laws

  • 5: The science

  • 6: Motion prior to Galileo

  • 7: Galileo and the Law of Fall

  • 8: Newton and the Laws of Motion

  • 9: The lever

  • 10: The rise of ¿ mv2

  • 11: Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz

  • 12: The conservation of mechanical energy

  • 13: Heat

  • 14: Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity

  • 15: Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry

  • 16: The rise of the steam engine

  • 17: Caloric

  • 18: The ideal gas

  • 19: The final steps to energy and its conservation

  • 20: Julius Robert Mayer

  • 21: James Joule

  • 22: The 1st Law of Thermodynamics

  • 23: Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay

  • Part 4 Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics

  • 24: The science

  • 25: The piston

  • 26: England and the steam engine

  • 27: The Newcomen engine

  • 28: James Watt

  • 29: Trevithick, Woolf and high-pressure steam

  • 30: Sadi Carnot

  • 31: Rudolph Clausius

  • 32: William Thomson

  • 33: The creation of thermodynamics

  • 34: Clausius and the road to entropy

  • 35: J. Willard Gibbs

  • 36: Gibbs' 3rd paper

  • 37: Practical applications of Gibbs' theories

  • 38: Dissemination of Gibbs' work

  • 39: The 2nd Law, entropy and the chemists

  • 40: Clausius - the kinetic theory of gases

  • 41: Maxwell - the rise of statistical mechanics

  • 42: Boltzmann - the probabilistic interpretation of entropy

  • 43: Shannon - entropy and information theory

  • Part 5

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Thermodynamik
Genre: Importe, Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198851554
ISBN-10: 0198851553
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hanlon, Robert T.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 244 x 190 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Robert T. Hanlon
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.2020
Gewicht: 1,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 117910712
Über den Autor
Dr. Robert T. Hanlon earned his Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Karlsruhe University in Germany. His professional career took him to Mobil Oil Research & Development Corporation, the Rohm and Haas Company, and then back to MIT where he is currently involved with their School of Chemical Engineering Practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Part 1 The Big Bang

  • 1: The Big Bang: the science

  • 2: The Big Bang: the discovery

  • Part 2 The Atom

  • 3: The Atom: the science

  • 4: The Atom: the discovery

  • Part 3 Energy and Conservation Laws

  • 5: The science

  • 6: Motion prior to Galileo

  • 7: Galileo and the Law of Fall

  • 8: Newton and the Laws of Motion

  • 9: The lever

  • 10: The rise of ¿ mv2

  • 11: Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz

  • 12: The conservation of mechanical energy

  • 13: Heat

  • 14: Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity

  • 15: Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry

  • 16: The rise of the steam engine

  • 17: Caloric

  • 18: The ideal gas

  • 19: The final steps to energy and its conservation

  • 20: Julius Robert Mayer

  • 21: James Joule

  • 22: The 1st Law of Thermodynamics

  • 23: Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay

  • Part 4 Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics

  • 24: The science

  • 25: The piston

  • 26: England and the steam engine

  • 27: The Newcomen engine

  • 28: James Watt

  • 29: Trevithick, Woolf and high-pressure steam

  • 30: Sadi Carnot

  • 31: Rudolph Clausius

  • 32: William Thomson

  • 33: The creation of thermodynamics

  • 34: Clausius and the road to entropy

  • 35: J. Willard Gibbs

  • 36: Gibbs' 3rd paper

  • 37: Practical applications of Gibbs' theories

  • 38: Dissemination of Gibbs' work

  • 39: The 2nd Law, entropy and the chemists

  • 40: Clausius - the kinetic theory of gases

  • 41: Maxwell - the rise of statistical mechanics

  • 42: Boltzmann - the probabilistic interpretation of entropy

  • 43: Shannon - entropy and information theory

  • Part 5

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Thermodynamik
Genre: Importe, Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198851554
ISBN-10: 0198851553
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hanlon, Robert T.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 244 x 190 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Robert T. Hanlon
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.2020
Gewicht: 1,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 117910712
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