Thermodynamic weirdness : from Fahrenheit to Clausius / Don S. Lemons.
By: Lemons, Don S. (Don Stephen) [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, ©2019Description: 176 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262039390 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Thermodynamics -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Inventing temperature -- Heat and caloric -- Carnot's analysis -- Absolute temperature -- Mechanical equivalent of heat -- First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Absolute temperature, again -- Entropy -- Law of entropy non-decrease -- The fate of the universe? -- Classical thermodynamics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inventing temperature -- Heat and caloric -- Carnot's analysis -- Absolute temperature -- Mechanical equivalent of heat -- First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Absolute temperature, again -- Entropy -- Law of entropy non-decrease -- The fate of the universe? -- Classical thermodynamics.