Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies

出版者:Elsevier Science Ltd

作者:Jaroslav Sestak

页数:486

出版时间:2006-1

价格:200

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780444519542

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Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics. It involves Greek philosophical views and their impact on the development of contemporary ideas.

Covered topics include:

. the concept of heat

. thermometry and calorimetry

. early concepts of temperature and its gradients

. non-equilibrium and quantum thermodynamics

. chemical kinetics

. entropy, order and information

. thermal science applied to economy(econophysics), ecosystems, and process dynamics or mesoscopic scales (quantum diffusion)

. importance of energy science and its influence to societal life