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Thermodynamics is fundamental to university curricula in chemistry, physics, engineering and many life sciences. It is also notoriously difficult for students to understand, learn and apply. This book explains the fundamental concepts with great clarity, and shows how they can be applied to a variety of chemical and life science contexts.
List of contents
- Part 1 - Fundamentals
- 1: Systems and states
- 2: Work and energy
- 3: Temperature and heat
- 4: Thermodynamics and mathematics
- Part 2 - The Three Laws
- 5: The First Law of Thermodynamics
- 6: Enthalpy and thermochemistry
- 7: Ideal gas processes - and some non-ideal ones too
- 8: Spontaneous changes
- 9: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 10: Clausius, Kelvin, Planck, Carathéodory and Carnot
- 11: Order, information and time
- 12: The Third Law of Thermodynamics
- Part 3 - Free energy, spontaneity and equilibrium
- 13: Free energy
- 14: Chemical equilibrium and chemical kinetics
- Part 4 - Chemical applications
- 15: Phase equilibria
- 16: Reactions in solution
- 17: Acids, bases, and buffer solutions
- 18: Boiling points and melting points
- 19: Mixing and osmosis
- 20: Electrochemistry
- 21: Mathematical round-up
- 22: From ideal to real
- Part 5 - Biochemical applications
- 23: The biochemical standard state
- 24: The bioenergetics of living cells
- 25: Macromolecular conformations and interactions
- 26: Thermodynamics today - and tomorrow
About the author
Dennis Sherwood is Managing Director of The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Ltd. Dennis coauthored Crystals, X-rays and Proteins (Oxford University Press, 2010) and is the author of Introductory Chemical Thermodynamics (Longman, 1971). He earned his PhD in Biology at University of California at San Diego.
Paul Dalby is Professor of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at University College London, and Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies. Paul's research combines protein engineering and formulation, with biophysical characterisation, to understand the factors that influence protein stability. This informs protein engineering and formulation designs that can improve therapeutic protein manufacturing and delivery to patients. Paul earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge.
Summary
Thermodynamics is fundamental to university curricula in chemistry, physics, engineering and many life sciences. It is also notoriously difficult for students to understand, learn and apply. This book explains the fundamental concepts with great clarity, and shows how they can be applied to a variety of chemical and life science contexts.
Additional text
This book's structure of unambiguous explanation of the fundamentals, followed by the application of those principles to chemical and biochemical settings, allows the reader to see thermodynamics as a tool to understand and design biological systems, rather than as an end in itself.
