Energy and Entropy Equilibrium to Stationary States /

• Main Author: Starzak, Michael E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Chemistry > Mathematics.; Chemistry, Physical organic.; Thermodynamics.; Physical Chemistry.; Math. Applications in Chemistry.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77823-5

This book is an overview of classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, non-equilibrium and stationary state thermodynamics. This comprehensive work is the first book outside of specialized monographs to approach flow systems and irreversible thermodynamics for advanced undergraduate or in...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Thermodynamics and Transport
• Stationary State Thermodynamics.