Engines, energy, and entropy : a thermodynamics primer / John B. Fenn.

Author
Fenn, John B., 1917-2010 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, ©1982.
Description
xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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          Subject(s)
          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.
          ISBN
          • 0716712814
          • 9780716712817
          • 0716712822 ((pbk.))
          • 9780716712824 ((pbk.))
          LCCN
          81017305
          OCLC
          7924724
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