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Engines, energy, and entropy : a thermodynamics primer / John B. Fenn.
Author
Fenn, John B., 1917-2010
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Language
English
Published/Created
San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, ©1982.
Description
xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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TJ265 .F37
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Thermodynamics
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Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. In the beginning
Hot and cold are different
Getting heat from work
Heat and work are different
Enter a Greek, hero
First came gun power
Reenter steam
In retrospect
Workout on work
2. How hot is hot?
Hotness by hand
Early thermometers
But what is temperature?
Thermometry with gases
The international scale
Summing up
Scale practice
3. Systems, properties, and states
Specific meanings for some general terms
Why temperature gets into the act
Relations with temperature
Moles and molecules
The ideal gas law
Other equations of state
Some sample problems
Highlights
Statesmanship test
4. Back to work
Mechanical work in general
Work by expanding gas
Work when the pressure changes
Back to isothermal expansion
Example problems
In brief
Work to learn by
5. More in re heat
Heat is a happening
How much is the heat that happens?
Models and what causes that?
The caloric canon and Rumford's boring mill
Example exercises
Specifics on heat
Warming-up exercises
6. The origins of cycle analysis
No toy, this engine
Thinking in cycles but not circles
Carnot's celebrated cycle
Consequences of Carnot's cyclic concatenation
Engines and the law
An example
Recycle to remember
Cycle drill
7. Heat is work and work is heat but energy's the difference
Change of scene : arsenal to brewery
Mechanics and the origin of the energy concept
Work and conservative systems
Mechanics extended
And now add heat
Other kinds of energy?
Exercises
The essentials of equivalence
Equivalence exercises
8. Two laws from one dilemma
At the same time in different countries
A new look at some old experience
Heating at constant pressure
Work without heat, adiabatic expansion and compression
Carnot's cycle revisited
Example exercise
Law practice
10. HER has much to say
HER at the power plant
HER and science
Three problems solved
Res memoranda
More of HER implications
11. HER under the hood
The Otto cycle or spark-ignition engine
The octane number game
The docile diesel
Efficiency vs. environment
Clear-air cost problem
Things to think about while driving
Engine problems
12. Enter entropy
Properties vs. interactions
More on properties from interactions
Computation of some entropy changes
More on the independence of path
An extra exercise
Worthwhile recollections
What in entropy is the difference?
13. Entropy is the end
In search of elegance
Entropy changes in isolated systems
Entropy and the second law
How one thing leads to another
The essence of entropy
Order and chaos
Appendix I. Mechanical properties, units and measurements
Appendix II. A guided tour through log land
Appendix III. Everything has entropy
Appendix IV. The atomic weights of the elements
Table of symbols
Answers to problems
Index/Glossary.
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ISBN
0716712814
9780716712817
0716712822 ((pbk.))
9780716712824 ((pbk.))
LCCN
81017305
OCLC
7924724
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