Thermal physics /

Sprackling, Michael.

Thermal physics / Michael Sprackling. - London : Macmillan education ltd., c1991. - xiv, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Macmillan physical science series. .

Contents;

1. What is thermal physics?
2. Systems and processes
3. Temperature
4. First law of thermodynamics
5. Some simple thermodynamic systems
6. Some properties of gases
7. The second law of thermodynamics
8. Entropy
9. The ideologies and thermodynamic temperature
10. Thermodynamic potential functions
11. Heat capacity
12. The application of thermodynamics to some simple systems
13. Equations of state
14. Phase changes
15. The third law of thermodynamics
16. The application of thermodynamics to some irreversible processes
17. A simple kinetic theory of gases
18. Heat transfer



Includes bibliographical references and index.


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