Concise thermodynamics

Woodhead Publishing Ltd, January 2008, Pages: 152

This one-semester course text introduces basic principles of thermodynamics and considers a variety of applications in science and engineering. The modern coverage is compact yet self contained and holistic, with adequate material in a concise and economically-priced book for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates reading for first and higher degrees, and for professionals in research and industry. The mathematical prerequisite is an understanding of partial differentiation.

Introduction
- The Zeroth law
- The first law
- The second law
- Non-stochastic processes
- The third law
- Extension to open and non-equilibrium systems
- Thermodynamic cycles
- Negative temperatures and the second law
- Phase transitions
- Thermodynamic equilibrium and stability
- Concavity of the entropy and negative heat capacities
- Black hole entropy and alternative model for a black hole
- Energy sources and the world’s energy requirements
- Concluding remarks
- Appendix
- Answers and solutions to exercises
- Glossary, Bibliography and index.

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