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Klappentext First published in 1871! this is Maxwell's masterly account of the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Zusammenfassung Published in 1871! this masterly account of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics derived the 'Maxwell relations'! which still feature in every standard thermodynamics text. The book also introduced the famous and controversial idea soon to be known as Maxwell's 'demon'! which seemed to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Thermometry, or the registration of temperature; 3. Calorimetry, or the measurement of heat; 4. Elementary dynamical principles; 5. Measurement of internal forces and their effects; 6. Lines of equal temperature on the indicator diagram; 7. Adiabatic lines; 8. Heat engines; 9. Relations between the physical properties of a substance; 10. Latent heat; 11. Thermodynamics of gases; 12. On the intrinsic energy of a system of bodies; 13. On free expansion; 14. Determination of heights by the barometer; 15. On the propagation of waves of longitudinal disturbance; 16. On radiation; 17. On convection currents; 18. On the diffusion of heat by conduction; 19. On the diffusion of fluids; 20. On capillarity; 21. On elasticity and viscosity; 22. Molecular theory of the constitution of bodies.
