Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvRobert T. Hanlon,USA) Hanlon, Robert T. (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, Massachusetts,Robert Hanlon

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At the heart of many fields - physics, chemistry, engineering - lies thermodynamics. While this science plays a critical role in determining the boundary between what is and is not possible in the natural world, it occurs to many as an indecipherable black box, thus making the subject a challenge to learn. Two obstacles contribute to this situation, the first being the disconnect between the fundamental theories and the underlying physics and the second being the confusing concepts and terminologies involved with the theories. While one needn't confront either of these two obstacles to successfully use thermodynamics to solve real problems, overcoming both provides access to a greater intuitive sense of the problems and more confidence, more strength, and more creativity in solving them. This book offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian. The book synthesises and gathers into one accessible volume a strategic range of foundational topics involving the atomic theory, energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-16
Mått194 x 244 x 37 mm
Vikt1 528 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor672
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198851547

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Dr. Robert T. Hanlon earned his Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Karlsruhe University in Germany. His professional career took him to Mobil Oil Research & Development Corporation, the Rohm and Haas Company, and then back to MIT where he is currently involved with their School of Chemical Engineering Practice.

List of FiguresIntroductionAcknowledgementsPart I - The Big Bang (and the synthesis of the elements in stars)1. The Big Bang: science2. The Big Bang: discoveryPart II - The Atom (hard spheres that attract and repel each other)3. The Atom: science4. The Atom: discoveryPart III - Energy and the Conservation Laws5. Energy: science (and some history)6. Motion prior to Galileo7. Galileo and the Law of Fall8. Newton and the Laws of Motion9. The lever10. The rise of mv211. Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz12. Rudimentary version of the conservation of mechanical energy (1750)13. Heat: the missing piece to the puzzle14. Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity15. Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry16. Rise of the steam engine17. Caloric theory: beginning of its end18. The ideal gas19. The final steps to energy and its conservation20. Julius Robert Mayer21. James Joule22. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics23. Epilogue: The mystery of beta decayPart IV - Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics24. Entropy: science (and some history)25. It started with the piston26. Britain and the steam engine27. The Newcomen engine28. James Watt29. Trevithick, Woolf, and high-pressure steam30. Sadi Carnot31. Rudolf Clausius32. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)33. The creation of thermodynamics34. Clausius and the road to entropy35. J. Willard Gibbs36. Gibbs' 3rd paper37. Practical applications & Gibbs energy (G)38. Dissemination of Gibbs' work39. The 2nd Law, entropy, and the chemists40. Clausius: the kinetic theory of gases41. Maxwell: the rise of statistical mechanics42. Boltzmann: the probabilistic interpretation of entropy43. Shannon: entropy and information theoryAfterwordBibliographyIndexEpigraph Permissions