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A Generalized Approach to Thermal Analysis
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By
Jaroslav Sestak, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
Description
Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal
and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics. It involves Greek philosophical
views and their impact on the development of contemporary ideas.
Covered topics include:
– the concept of heat
– thermometry
and calorimetry
– early concepts of temperature and its gradients
– non-equilibrium and quantum thermodynamics
– chemical
kinetics
– entropy, order and information
– thermal science applied to economy(econophysics), ecosystems, and process dynamics
or mesoscopic scales (quantum diffusion)
– importance of energy science and its influence to societal life
Audience
This title is recommended to specialists in thermal science as well as the general scientist. It can serve as a reference text for those
interested in the many concepts behind thermal analysis and its applications in other areas, providing the reader with a wide background
and framework of thermal sciences.
Contents
1. Some Philosophical Aspects of Scientific Research.
2. Miscellaneous Features of Thermal Science.
3. Fire as a Philosophical
and Alchemical Archetype.
4. Concept of Heat in the Renaissance and New Age.
5. Understanding Heat, Temperature and Gradients.
6. Heat, Entropy and Information.
7. Thermodynamics and Thermostatics.
8. Thermodynamics, Econophysics, Ecosystems and Societal
Behavior.
9. Thermal Physics of Processes Dynamics.
10. Modeling Reaction Mechanism: The use of Euclidian and Fractal Geometry.
11. Non-Isothermal Kinetics by Thermal Analysis.
12. Thermometry and Calorimetry.
13. Thermophysical Examinations and Temperature
Control.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 486 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51954-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-51954-8
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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