A New Perspective on ThermodynamicsThis book introduces a new outlook on thermodynamics. It brings the theory up to the present time and indicates areas of further development with the union of information theory and the theory of means and their inequalities. |
Contents
1 The Predecessors of Carnot | 1 |
2 Thermodynamics from Carnot to Clausius and Kelvin | 17 |
3 Thermodynamics in a Carnot Equation | 47 |
4 Equivalence of First and Second Laws | 71 |
5 Work from Nonequilibrium Systems | 117 |
6 Nonextensive Thermodynamics | 145 |
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