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Dewey Class	536.7
Title	A Commentary on Thermodynamics ([EBook] /) / by William Alan Day.
Author	Day, William Alan
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : : Springer New York : : Imprint: Springer, , 1988.
Physical Details	IX, 97 p. : online resource.
Series	Springer tracts in natural philosophy 0081-3877 ; ; 32
ISBN	9781441985507
Summary Note	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.:
Contents note	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.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8550-7
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Physics . Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics . Thermodynamics . Authors: Day, William Alan . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Springer tracts in natural philosophy . Classification: 536.7 .

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