Thermodynamics is an ever evolving subject. This book aims to introduce to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students the fundamental ideas and notions of the first and second laws of thermodynamics in a manner unavailable in the usual textbooks on the subject of thermodynamics. For example, it treats the notions of unavailable work, compensated and uncompensated heats, and dissipation, which make it possible to formulate the thermodynamic laws in more broadened forms than those in the conventional treatment of equilibrium thermodynamics. It thus strives to prepare students for more advanced subjects of irreversible processes, which are encountered in our everyday scientific activities. In addition, it also aims to provide them with functional and practical knowledge of equilibrium chemical thermodynamics of reversible processes in real fluids. It discusses temperature, work and heat, thermodynamic laws, equilibrium conditions and thermodynamic stability, thermodynamics of reversible processes in gases and liquids, in surfaces, chemical equilibria, reversible processes in electrolyte solutions and dielectrics in static electric and magnetic fields. A couple of examples for irreversible processes associated with fluid flows and chemical pattern formation and wave propagations are discussed as examples for applications of broader treatments of the thermodynamic laws in the realm of irreversible phenomena.
Contents:
Introduction
Temperature, Work, and Heat
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Equilibrium Conditions and Thermodynamic Stability
The Third Law of Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics of Mixtures and Open Systems
Heterogeneous Equilibria
Thermodynamics of Real Fluids
Canonical Equation of State
Thermodynamics of Real Gas Mixtures
Chemical Equilibria
Thermodynamics of Solutions
Thermodynamics of Surfaces
Electrolyte Solutions
Debye–Hückel Theory of Strong Electrolyte Solutions
Galvanic Cells and Electromotive Forces
Thermodynamics of Electric and Magnetic Fields
Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes
Appendices
Local Form of Energy Conservation Law
Various Coefficients Used in Chapter 10
Thermodynamics is an ever evolving subject. This book aims to introduce to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students the fundamental ideas and notions of the first and second laws of thermodynamics in a manner unavailable in the usual textbooks on the subject of thermodynamics. For example, it treats the notions of unavailable work, compensated and uncompensated heats, and dissipation, which make it possible to formulate the thermodynamic laws in more broadened forms than those in the conventional treatment of equilibrium thermodynamics. It thus strives to prepare students for more advanced subjects of irreversible processes, which are encountered in our everyday scientific activities. In addition, it also aims to provide them with functional and practical knowledge of equilibrium chemical thermodynamics of reversible processes in real fluids. It discusses temperature, work and heat, thermodynamic laws, equilibrium conditions and thermodynamic stability, thermodynamics of reversible processes in gases and liquids, in surfaces, chemical equilibria, reversible processes in electrolyte solutions and dielectrics in static electric and magnetic fields. A couple of examples for irreversible processes associated with fluid flows and chemical pattern formation and wave propagations are discussed as examples for applications of broader treatments of the thermodynamic laws in the realm of irreversible phenomena.
Contents:
Introduction
Temperature, Work, and Heat
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Equilibrium Conditions and Thermodynamic Stability
The Third Law of Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics of Mixtures and Open Systems
Heterogeneous Equilibria
Thermodynamics of Real Fluids
Canonical Equation of State
Thermodynamics of Real Gas Mixtures
Chemical Equilibria
Thermodynamics of Solutions
Thermodynamics of Surfaces
Electrolyte Solutions
Debye–Hückel Theory of Strong Electrolyte Solutions
Galvanic Cells and Electromotive Forces
Thermodynamics of Electric and Magnetic Fields
Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes
Appendices
Local Form of Energy Conservation Law
Various Coefficients Used in Chapter 10