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This book enables the reader to learn, in a single volume,
equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics as well as
generalized forms of hydrodynamics for linear and nonlinear
processes applied to various hydrodynamic flow processes -
including chemical oscillation phenomena and pattern formations,
shock wave phenomena, sound wave propagations, and Liesegang
pattern formation, amongst others.Chemical Thermodynamics
introduces advanced undergraduate students and graduate students to
the fundamental ideas and notions of the first and second laws of
thermodynamics by seamlessly combining equilibrium and
nonequilibrium thermodynamics in a unicameral viewpoint based on
the first and second law of thermodynamics. Part I of the book
discusses equilibrium thermodynamics in historical deference,
covering topics generally dealt with in traditional equilibrium
thermodynamics. In Part II, the concept of entropy for reversible
processes is extended and developed for thermodynamics of
irreversible processes by using the concept of calortropy (heat
evolution), so that the mathematical theory of macroscopic
processes in matter, including a generalized form of hydrodynamics,
is ensured to remain consistent with the thermodynamic laws.
Thermodynamics is an ever evolving subject. This book aims to
introduce to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students
the fundamental ideas and notions of the first and second laws of
thermodynamics in a manner unavailable in the usual textbooks on
the subject of thermodynamics. For example, it treats the notions
of unavailable work, compensated and uncompensated heats, and
dissipation, which make it possible to formulate the thermodynamic
laws in more broadened forms than those in the conventional
treatment of equilibrium thermodynamics. It thus strives to prepare
students for more advanced subjects of irreversible processes,
which are encountered in our everyday scientific activities. In
addition, it also aims to provide them with functional and
practical knowledge of equilibrium chemical thermodynamics of
reversible processes in real fluids. It discusses temperature, work
and heat, thermodynamic laws, equilibrium conditions and
thermodynamic stability, thermodynamics of reversible processes in
gases and liquids, in surfaces, chemical equilibria, reversible
processes in electrolyte solutions and dielectrics in static
electric and magnetic fields. A couple of examples for irreversible
processes associated with fluid flows and chemical pattern
formation and wave propagations are discussed as examples for
applications of broader treatments of the thermodynamic laws in the
realm of irreversible phenomena.
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