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A Commentary on Thermodynamics / by William A. Day
(Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy ; 32)

Edition	1st ed. 1988.
Publisher	(New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer)
Year	1988
Language	English
Size	IX, 97 p : online resource
Authors	*Day, William A author SpringerLink (Online service)
Subjects	LCSH:Thermodynamics LCSH:Mathematical physics FREE:Thermodynamics FREE:Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
Notes	1 Nonlinear Thermoelasticity -- 2 Simplification and Approximation -- 1 Homogeneous and Dissipationless Thermoelasticity -- 2 Linearized Thermoelasticity -- 3 Efficiency Within Nonlinear Thermoelasticity -- 4 Efficiency Within Homogeneous and Dissipationless Thermoelasticity -- 5 Efficiency Within Linearized Thermoelasticity -- 6 Versions of a Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 1 Nonlinear Thermoelasticity -- 2 Homogeneous and Dissipationless Thermoelasticity -- 3 Linearized Thermoelasticity -- 4 Nonstandard Linearized Thermoelasticity -- References The aim of this book is to comment on, and clarify, the mathematical aspects of the theory of thermodynamics. The standard presentations of the subject are often beset by a number of obscurities associated with the words "state", "reversible", "irreversible", and "quasi-static". This book is written in the belief that such obscurities are best removed not by the formal axiomatization of thermodynamics, but by setting the theory in the wider context of a genuine field theory which incorporates the effects of heat conduction and intertia, and proving appropriate results about the governing differential equations of this field theory. Even in the simplest one-dimensional case it is a nontrivial task to carry through the details of this program, and many challenging problems remain open HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8550-7

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