Energy and Entropy: Equilibrium to Stationary States

Michael E. Starzak (auth.)0387778225, 978-0-387-77822-8, 978-0-387-77823-5

This book is an overview of classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, non-equilibrium and stationary state thermodynamics. This comprehensive work is the first book outside of specialized monographs to approach flow systems and irreversible thermodynamics for advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate courses in thermodynamics in chemistry, physics, biophysics, and engineering programs. Instructors for those courses will find in this book transparent models that clarify a broad range of difficult physical and mathematical concepts, including:
Cooligative properties and solution thermodynamicsChemical potential for equilibrium systemsContinuous energy systemsTransition to non-equilibrium systems through statistical chemical kineticsBose–Einstein statistics in conjunction with unimolecular reaction rate theoryIrreversible thermodynamics with both time and spatial dependenceBasic stationary state processes.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xiii
The First Law of Thermodynamics….Pages 1-21
First Law Formalism….Pages 23-36
First Law of Thermodynamics: Applications….Pages 37-49
Entropy and the Second Law: Thermodynamics Viewpoint….Pages 51-69
The Nature of Entropy….Pages 71-87
Free Energy….Pages 89-104
Thermodynamic Equations of State….Pages 105-118
Chemical Potentials in Solution….Pages 119-127
Phase Equilibria and Colligative Properties….Pages 129-147
The Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics….Pages 149-163
Applied Boltzmann Statistics….Pages 165-179
Multi-state Systems….Pages 181-196
Maxwell–Boltzmann Distributions….Pages 197-216
Interactions….Pages 217-229
Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemical Kinetics….Pages 231-253
Irreversible Thermodynamics and Transport….Pages 255-274
Stationary State Thermodynamics….Pages 275-295
Back Matter….Pages 297-314