Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this authoritative milestone in the foundational development of thermodynamics provides a unique reference for all physicists and engineers. Basic concepts and applications are discussed in complete detail with attention to generality and logical consistency, removing ambiguities and limitations of traditional presentations. Worked-out examples and end-of-chapter problems illustrate the use of energy and entropy balances as powerful analytical keystones in physics and engineering.
The text provides material for undergraduate and graduate courses. At the introductory level, it covers heat engines, stable-equilibrium-state models for ideal-gas, incompressible-fluid and solid behaviors, heat, work and bulk-flow interactions, thermodynamic efficiency, energy conversion systems, energy, and availability/ At the intermediate level, it covers ideal and nonideal mixtures, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, and combustion.
At the advanced level, the unique non-traditional order of exposition of the basic concepts and principles (system, property, state, process, first law, energy, equilibrium, stable equilibrium, second law, entropy) allows rigorous general definitions of energy and entropy valid for all systems (large and small, few- and many- particles) and all states (stable and non-stable equilibrium, as well as non-equilibrium). In particular, entropy is defined before and independently of the definitions of temperature and heat, and of the simple-system model for many-particle systems.
By:
Elias P Gyftopoulos,
Gia
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 39mm
Weight: 1.150kg
ISBN: 9780486439327
ISBN 10: 0486439321
Series: Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 18 October 2010
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Preface 1. How to Study with This Book 2. Kinematics and Dynamics 3. Energy 4. Stability of Equilibrium 5. Adiabatic Availability 6. Available Energy 7. Entropy 8. Stable-Equilibrium-State Principle 9. Temperature 10. Total Potentials 11. Pressure 12. Work and Heat 13. Energy versus Entropy Graphs 14. Summary of Basic Concepts 15. Heat Engines 16. Systems with Volume as the Only Parameter 17. Simple Systems 18. Phase Rule 19. Thermophysical Properties of Pure Substances 20. Ideal Gases, Liquids, and Solids 21. Equations of State 22. Bulk Flow 23. Conversion Devices 24. Availability Functions 25. Energy Conversion Systems 26. Thermophysical Properties of Mixtures 27. Ideal-Gas Mixtures and Solutions 28. Nonideal Mixtures 29. Chemical Reactions 30. Chemical Equilibrium 31. Combustion Epilogue Physical Constants and Unit Conversion Tables Tables of Properties Solutions to Problems Index
Elias P. Gyftopoulos received his doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT in 1958. He is MIT's Ford Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and of Nuclear Engineering. Gian Paolo Beretta was awarded a doctorate in engineering at MIT in 1981. A full Professor of Thermal Sciences at Brescia University, he is a frequent visiting professor at MIT.
