Entropy And Its Physical Meaning

Author : J. S. Dugdale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 209 pages
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Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482272864

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Entropy And Its Physical Meaning by J. S. Dugdale Pdf

This text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy - a central concept in thermodynamics, but one which is often regarded as the most difficult to grasp. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept, and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical treatment which provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order at low temperatures. Dugdale includes here a brief account of some of the more intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and superfluidity.Entropy and Its Physical Meaning also includes a number of exercises which can be used for both self- learning and class work. It is intended to provide a complete understanding of the concept of entropy, making it valuable reading for undergraduates in physics, physical sciences and engineering, and for students studying thermodynamics within other science courses such as meteorology, biology and medicine.

Author : J. S. Dugdale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0748405690

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Entropy And Its Physical Meaning by J. S. Dugdale Pdf

This text gives students a clear and easily understood introduction to entropy - a central concept in thermodynamics, but one which is often regarded as the most difficult to grasp. Professor Dugdale first presents a classical and historical view of entropy, looking in detail at the scientists who developed the concept, and at how they arrived at their ideas. This is followed by a statistical treatment which provides a more physical portrait of entropy, relating it to disorder and showing how physical and chemical systems tend to states of order at low temperatures. Dugdale includes here a brief account of some of the more intriguing manifestations of order in properties such as superconductivity and superfluidity.Entropy and Its Physical Meaning also includes a number of exercises which can be used for both self- learning and class work. It is intended to provide a complete understanding of the concept of entropy, making it valuable reading for undergraduates in physics, physical sciences and engineering, and for students studying thermodynamics within other science courses such as meteorology, biology and medicine.

Author : Joseph Frederic Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Thermodynamics
ISBN : OCLC:678914429

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Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law by Joseph Frederic Klein Pdf

Author : John Sydney Dugdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Entropy
ISBN : UCAL:B4532840

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Entropy and Low Temperature Physics by John Sydney Dugdale Pdf

Author : J. F. Klein
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0365485004

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Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law (Classic Reprint) by J. F. Klein Pdf

Excerpt from Physical Significance of Entropy or of the Second Law This article is intended for those students of engineering who already have some elementary knowledge of thermodynamics. It is intended to clear up a difficulty that has beset every earnest beginner of this subject. The difficulty is not one of application to engineering problems, although here too there have been widespread misconceptions,1 for the expressions developed by clausius are simple, have long been known and much used by engineers and physicists. The difficulty is rather as to the ultimate physical meaning of entropy. This term has long been known as a sort of property of the state of the body, has long been surmised to be of essentially a statistical nature, but with it all there was a sense that it was a sort of mathematical fiction, that it was somehow unreal and elusive, so it is no wonder that in certain engineering quarters it was dubbed the ghostly quantity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814623896

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Entropy and the Second Law by Arieh Ben-Naim Pdf

This book presents a clear and readable description of one of the most mysterious concepts of physics: Entropy. It contains a self-learning kit that guides the reader in understanding the concepts of entropy. In the first part, the reader is asked to play the familiar twenty-Question game. Once the reader feels comfortable with playing this game and acquires proficiency in playing the game effectively (intelligently), he or she will be able to capture the elusive and used-to-be mysterious concept of entropy. There will be no more speculative or arbitrary interpretations, nor “older” or “modern” views of entropy. This book will guide readers in choosing their own interpretation of entropy. Video intro on the Bestsellers on Entropy by Arieh Ben-Naim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fOsKyOlHw Request Inspection Copy Contents:Introduction: From Heat Engines to Disorder, Information Spreading, Freedom, and More…Forget about Entropy for a While, Let us Go and Play iGamesThe Astounding Emergence of the Entropy of a Classical Ideal Gas out of Shannon's Measure of InformationExamples and Their Interpretations. Challenges for any Descriptor of EntropyFinally, Let Us Discuss the Most Mysterious Second Law of Thermodynamics Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry and physics, academics and lay persons.

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786349866

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Between The Earth And The Heavens: Historical Studies In The Physical Sciences by Helge Kragh Pdf

Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is no ordinary history of science book. Between the Earth and the Heavens is an episodic history of modern physical sciences covering the chronological development of physics, chemistry and astronomy since about 1860. Integrating historical authenticity and modern scientific knowledge, the cases within deal with the often surprising connections between science done in the laboratory (physics, chemistry) and science based on observation (astronomy, cosmology).Between the Earth and the Heavens presupposes an interest in and a certain knowledge of the physical sciences, but it is written for non-specialists and includes only a limited number of equations which are all clearly explained in simple terms. For readers who wish to delve further, the book is fully documented and ends with a bibliography of cited quotations and other relevant sources.

Author : J. F. Klein
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517334993

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Physical Significance of Entropy Or of the Second Law by J. F. Klein Pdf

In "The Physical Significance of Entropy" Prof. J. F. Klein has attempted to present the general conclusions arising from the investigations of Boltzmann and Planck, the former dealing mainly with molecular systems, and the latter with radiation phenomena. Planck's treatise was reviewed some time ago in Nature. The particular aspect of the problem here dealt with is the connection of the second law with probability considerations. In separating the conclusions from their analytical proofs, Prof. Klein has given the unmathematical reader a statement of results which he must accept on the authority of Boltzmann and Planck unless he is prepared to study up the original difficult mathematical investigations. The trouble is that these books fall into the hands of readers with whom a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and who without troubling to study the matter thoroughly rush into print with theories of their own, in which the most conspicuous feature is the flagrant misuse of elementary physical terms. Although these statistical considerations have certainly been successfully applied to the interpretation of current physical events, it must not be forgotten that they possess one important difficulty. While the theory of probability shows that the entropy of a system tends to a maximum, the same arguments appear to indicate the extreme improbability that the entropy should ever deviate from this maximum, and we are thus required to postulate an initial state of the universe, the improbability of which becomes increasingly difficult to understand as we go further and further back in the scale of time. It should be stated that Prof. Klein makes no claims to originality, and his book is well suited to specialists in other branches of science who want to know the gist of what has been done in this particular subject. -Nature, Vol. 89 [1912]

Author : Johan Diedrich Fast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822000477380

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Entropy by Johan Diedrich Fast Pdf

Author : Yi-chen Cheng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812566638

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Macroscopic and Statistical Thermodynamics by Yi-chen Cheng Pdf

"This textbook addresses the key questions in both classical thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics: Why are the thermodynamic properties of a nano-sized system different from those of a macroscopic system of the same substance? Why and how is entropy defined in thermodynamics, and how is the entropy change calculated when dissipative heat is involved? What is an ensemble and why is its theory so successful?" "Translated from a highly successful Chinese book, this expanded English edition containsmany updated sections and several new ones. They include the introduction of the grand canonical ensemble, the grand partition function and its application to ideal quantum gases, a discussion of the mean field theory of the Ising model and the phenomenon of ferromagnetism, as well as a more detailed discussion of ideal quantum gases near T = 0, for both Fermi and Bose gases."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andreas Greven,Gerhard Keller,Gerald Warnecke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781400865222

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Entropy by Andreas Greven,Gerhard Keller,Gerald Warnecke Pdf

The concept of entropy arose in the physical sciences during the nineteenth century, particularly in thermodynamics and statistical physics, as a measure of the equilibria and evolution of thermodynamic systems. Two main views developed: the macroscopic view formulated originally by Carnot, Clausius, Gibbs, Planck, and Caratheodory and the microscopic approach associated with Boltzmann and Maxwell. Since then both approaches have made possible deep insights into the nature and behavior of thermodynamic and other microscopically unpredictable processes. However, the mathematical tools used have later developed independently of their original physical background and have led to a plethora of methods and differing conventions. The aim of this book is to identify the unifying threads by providing surveys of the uses and concepts of entropy in diverse areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. Two major threads, emphasized throughout the book, are variational principles and Ljapunov functionals. The book starts by providing basic concepts and terminology, illustrated by examples from both the macroscopic and microscopic lines of thought. In-depth surveys covering the macroscopic, microscopic and probabilistic approaches follow. Part I gives a basic introduction from the views of thermodynamics and probability theory. Part II collects surveys that look at the macroscopic approach of continuum mechanics and physics. Part III deals with the microscopic approach exposing the role of entropy as a concept in probability theory, namely in the analysis of the large time behavior of stochastic processes and in the study of qualitative properties of models in statistical physics. Finally in Part IV applications in dynamical systems, ergodic and information theory are presented. The chapters were written to provide as cohesive an account as possible, making the book accessible to a wide range of graduate students and researchers. Any scientist dealing with systems that exhibit entropy will find the book an invaluable aid to their understanding.

Author : J.L. Morán-López,José M. Sánchez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461304197

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Theory and Applications of the Cluster Variation and Path Probability Methods by J.L. Morán-López,José M. Sánchez Pdf

This volume is a compilation of papers presented at the International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of the Cluster Variation and Path Probability Methods, held in the city of San Juan, Teotihuacan, Mexico, during June 18-22, 1995. The presentations at the workshop provided a state of the art review of the fundamental aspects of the CVM and PPM and their application to a wide range of problems in statistical mechanics and alloy theory. The volume begins with several articles dealing with the study of the kinetics of ordering in Ising sytems and alloys using the PPM and other classical techniques. These articles are followed by the contribution of Professor Masuo Suzuki on the Coherent Anomaly Method which has added a new dimension to mean field theory, and the CVM in particular, in the study of critical phenomena. The remaining of the volume is dedicated to fundamental aspects and specific applications of the CVM in a wide range of subjects ranging from bulk and surface studies to new areas of inquiry such as the problem of image reconstruction. Since the inception by Prof. Ryoichi Kikuchi of the CVM in 1950 and of the PPM in 1966, the latter after a gestation period of approximately six years, the tech niques have found wide acceptance in the physics and materials science communities. Both methods are properly regarded as seminal contributions to equilibrium and non equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789813208827

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Information Theory by Arieh Ben-Naim Pdf

This book is about the definition of the Shannon measure of Information, and some derived quantities such as conditional information and mutual information. Unlike many books, which refer to the Shannon's Measure of information (SMI) as "Entropy," this book makes a clear distinction between the SMI and Entropy. In the last chapter, Entropy is derived as a special case of SMI. Ample examples are provided which help the reader in understanding the different concepts discussed in this book. As with previous books by the author, this book aims at a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concept in Information theory — the Shannon's Measure of Information. This book presents the fundamental concepts of Information theory in a friendly-simple language and is devoid of all kinds of fancy and pompous statements made by authors of popular science books who write on this subject. It is unique in its presentation of Shannon's measure of information, and the clear distinction between this concept and the thermodynamic entropy. Although some mathematical knowledge is required by the reader, the emphasis is on the concepts and their meaning rather on the mathematical details of the theory.

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813223479

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The Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe by Arieh Ben-Naim Pdf

This book provides a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concepts in thermodynamics — probability, entropy, Helmholtz energy and Gibbs energy. It presents the concepts of entropy, free energy and various formulations of the Second Law in a friendly, simple language. It is devoid of all kinds of fancy and pompous statements made by authors of popular science books who write on this subject. The book focuses on the Four Laws of Thermodynamics. As it is said in the dedication page, this book is addressed to readers who might have already been exposed to Atkins' book having a similar title. It challenges both the title, and the contents of Atkins' book, Four Laws That Drive The Universe. One can glean from the title of this new book that the author's views are diametrically opposed to the views of Atkins. The book is addressed to any curious and intelligent reader. It aims to tickle, and hopefully to satisfy your curiosity. It also aims to challenge your gray matter, and to enrich your knowledge by telling you some facts and ideas regarding the Four Laws of Thermodynamics.

Author : Dr. B. Kapila,S. K. Khanna
Publisher : Laxmi Publications
Page : 1181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9788131803776

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Comprehensive Chemistry XI by Dr. B. Kapila,S. K. Khanna Pdf

Comprehensive chemistry according to the new syllabus prescribed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).