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CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
With Examples for Nonequilibrium Processes
by Byung Chan Eu (McGill University, Canada) & Mazen
Al-Ghoul (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
450pp (approx.)
978-981-4295-11-6: US$90 / £59 US$67.50
/ £44.25
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.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Temperature, Work, and Heat
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Equilibrium Conditions and Thermodynamic
Stability
- Thermodynamics of Mixtures and Open Systems
- Heterogeneous Equilibria
- Thermodynamics of Real Fluids
- Canonical Equation of State
- Thermodynamics of Real Gas Mixtures
- Chemical Equilibria
- Thermodynamics of Solutions
- Thermodynamics of Surfaces
- Electrolyte Solutions
- Debye-Huckel Theory of Strong Electrolyte
Solutions
- Galvanic Cells and Electromotive Forces
- Thermodynamics of Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes
- Local Form of Energy Conservation Law
- Various Coefficients
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