Statistical Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach

ISBN-13: 9781108415316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 282 str.

John Daily

Opis

Clearly connects macroscopic and microscopic thermodynamics and explains non-equilibrium behavior in kinetic theory and chemical kinetics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Fundamentals of macroscopic thermodynamics; 3. Microscopic thermodynamics; 4. Quantum mechanics; 5. Ideal gases; 6. Ideal gas mixtures; 7. The photon and electron gases; 8. Dense gases; 9. Liquids; 10. Crystalline solids; 11. Thermodynamic stability and phase change; 12. Kinetic theory of gases; 13. Spectroscopy; 14. Chemical kinetics.

O autorze

Daily, John W. John Daily is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Combustion and Environmental Research at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously was a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and serves on the AIAA Executive Publications Committee. He has regular contributor to the AIAA Journal, the Combustion Institute Journal and the ASME Heat Transfer Journal. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermal-sciences, including thermodynamics. He is a founder of Precision Biopsy, LLC., a company that is developing optical biopsy instrumentation for cancer detection.