Thermodynamics

An Advanced Textbook for Chemical Engineers

G. Astarita (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

444 Seiten

1989
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-43048-0 (ISBN)

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If a Writer would know how to behave himself with relation to Posterity; let him consider in old Books, what he finds, that he is glad to know; and what Omissions he most laments. Jonathan Swift This book emerges from a long story of teaching. I taught chemical engineering thermodynamics for about ten years at the University of Naples in the 1960s, and I still remember the awkwardness that I felt about any textbook I chose to consider-all of them seemed to be vague at best, and the standard of logical rigor seemed immensely inferior to what I could find in books on such other of the students in my first class subjects as calculus and fluid mechanics. One (who is now Prof. F. Gioia of the University of Naples) once asked me a question which I have used here as Example 4. 2-more than 20 years have gone by, and I am still waiting for a more intelligent question from one of my students. At the time, that question compelled me to answer in a way I didn't like, namely "I'll think about it, and I hope I'll have the answer by the next time we meet. " I didn't have it that soon, though I did manage to have it before the end of the course.

One. Macroscopic Theory.- One. First and Second Laws.- Two. State and Equilibrium.- Three. Homogeneous Reactions.- Four. Phases.- Five. Thermodynamics of Relaxation.- Six. Surface Thermodynamics.- Seven. Dissipative Phenomena.- Two. Engineering Theory.- Eight. Equations of State.- Nine. Phase Equilibria.- Ten. Chemical Equilibria.- Eleven. Electrochemistry.- Twelve. Polymers.- Thirteen. Thermodynamics of Electromagnetism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1989
Zusatzinfo	XI, 444 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	0-306-43048-7 / 0306430487
ISBN-13	978-0-306-43048-0 / 9780306430480
Zustand	Neuware