Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Parts I & II Features 180 black-and-white illustrations

Features 180 black-and-white illustrations

Ranging far and wide in its topics

This volume contains more than sixty of Pyle's best works

Irving Chernev communicates in his notes the mystery and wonder as well as the delight in discovering again and again the original

Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Parts I & II Features 180 black-and-white illustrationsThis authoritative summary of the basics of small system, or nonmacroscopic, thermodynamics was written by the field's founder. Originally published in two volumes, the text remains essential reading in an area in which the practical aim is to derive equations that provide interconnections among various thermodynamic functions. Part I introduces the basics of small system thermodynamics, exploring environmental variables, noting throughout the ways in