Among Our Books

Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1904
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Measurements, Mechanisms, and Models of Heat Transport

Measurements, Mechanisms, and Models of Heat Transport
Author: Anne M. Hofmeister
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2018-11-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128099828

Measurements, Mechanisms, and Models of Heat Transport offers an interdisciplinary approach to the dynamic response of matter to energy input. Using a combination of fundamental principles of physics, recent developments in measuring time-dependent heat conduction, and analytical mathematics, this timely reference summarizes the relative advantages of currently used methods, and remediates flaws in modern models and their historical precursors. Geophysicists, physical chemists, and engineers will find the book to be a valuable resource for its discussions of radiative transfer models and the kinetic theory of gas, amended to account for atomic collisions being inelastic. This book is a prelude to a companion volume on the thermal state, formation, and evolution of planets. Covering both microscopic and mesoscopic phenomena of heat transport, Measurements, Mechanisms, and Models of Heat Transport offers both the fundamental knowledge and up-to-date measurements and models to encourage further improvem - Combines state-of-the-art measurements with core principles to lead to a better understanding of heat conduction and of radiative diffusion, and how these processes are linked - Focuses on macroscopic models of heat transport and the underlying physical principles, providing the tools needed to solve many different problems in heat transport - Connects thermodynamics with behavior of light in revising the kinetic theory of gas, which underlies all models of heat transport, and uses such links to re-derive formulae for blackbody emissions - Explores all states of matter, with an emphasis on crystalline and amorphous solids

Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Author: W.T. Grandy Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400938675

In a certain sense this book has been twenty-five years in the writing, since I first struggled with the foundations of the subject as a graduate student. It has taken that long to develop a deep appreciation of what Gibbs was attempting to convey to us near the end of his life and to understand fully the same ideas as resurrected by E.T. Jaynes much later. Many classes of students were destined to help me sharpen these thoughts before I finally felt confident that, for me at least, the foundations of the subject had been clarified sufficiently. More than anything, this work strives to address the following questions: What is statistical mechanics? Why is this approach so extraordinarily effective in describing bulk matter in terms of its constituents? The response given here is in the form of a very definite point of view-the principle of maximum entropy (PME). There have been earlier attempts to approach the subject in this way, to be sure, reflected in the books by Tribus [Thermostat ics and Thermodynamics, Van Nostrand, 1961], Baierlein [Atoms and Information Theory, Freeman, 1971], and Hobson [Concepts in Statistical Mechanics, Gordon and Breach, 1971].

The Best Books

The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1126
Release: 1891
Genre: Best books
ISBN:

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

Molecular Theory of Capillarity
Author: J. S. Rowlinson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486317099

History of surface phenomena offers critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories, focusing on statistical mechanics and application of results in mean-field approximation to model systems. 1989 edition.