This book presents the various branches of thermodynamics - classical, statistical, and others - and kinetics in a lucid manner that will appeal both to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The mathematical treatment is neither overly elaborate nor absent, but has been illustrated by examples from biology, physics, and other disciplines. The models drawn from diverseareas should make it attractive to readers seeking a clearer physical understanding of these fields and how they interrelate. Features include: worked examples exercises solutions to some of the exercises, available to all readers solutions to all the exercises, available to instructors. Bridges equilibrium and time dependent processes Mathematical techniques are developed using simple models The same basic models illustrate the physical concepts in different chapters Temporal and spatial equations are developed using basic thrmodynamics equations INDICE: The First Law of Thermodynamics.- First Law Formalism.- First Law of Thermodynamics: Applications.- Entropy and the Second Law: Thermodynamics Viewpoint.- The Nature of Entropy.- Free Energy.- Thermodynamic Equations of State.- Chemical Potentials in Solution.- Phase Equilibria and Colligative Properties.- The Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics.- Applied Boltzmann Statistics.- Multi-State Systems.- Maxwell-Boltzman Distributions.- Interactions.-Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemical Kinetics.- Irreversible Thermodynamicsand Transport.- Stationary State Thermodynamics.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-77822-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 314
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés