Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 May 2018
- ISBN 9780190695354
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 142x211x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 0
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Short description:
A fresh and unified exploration of the laws that govern natural change, examining the historical roots and meaning of the concepts of energy and entropy. All natural processes--mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, and biological--are viewed as a flow across free energy gradients that interact with one another.
MoreLong description:
Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature presents the essential principles of energetics (thermodynamics) in a straight-forward, easy to understand, and logically-consistent manner. As a student of physical chemistry and as a professor and researcher in biochemistry, physiology, and general biology, the author has seen the problems that arise for students, teachers, and researchers in mastering the laws of thermodynamics. These difficulties can be alleviated by a careful consideration of the historical roots of the ideas involved, and by recognizing that all natural change can be understood as a flow across a gradient of some kind. Part of the effect of every flow is to diminish its own gradient, but the decrease of one gradient can drive an increase in another.
The book's mission is to build a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of energetics and a confidence in going forth into the many areas that the study of energy opens up. In their applications, the laws of energy and entropy can often involve highly challenging problems and calculations, but the fundamental concepts addressed in this book are easy to understand and require relatively little mathematics.
In Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature, the development of our modern understanding of energy is richly discussed in the context of both metaphysical rhetoric and laboratory experimentation... Recommended for advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals and general readers.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins of the Idea of Energy and its Conservation
Chapter 2: Measurement, Dimensions, and Energy
Chapter 3: The Laws of Energy
Chapter 4: Thermal Energy, Temperature, and Entropy
Chapter 5: Energy and Entropy in Heat Engines and Heat Pumps
Chapter 6: The Spreading Tendency of Nature: Brownian Motion and Diffusion
Chapter 7: Chemical Energy
Chapter 8: Biological Energy
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