Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
In the first edition of this book I tried to survey in brief compass the main ideas, methods, and discoveries of rational thermodynamics as it then stood, only five years after Messrs. COLEMAN & NOLL, while in Baltimore, had written the fundamental memoir that provided for the new science the one root theretofore wanting. A survey in the same style today would require an almost wholly new book, three or four times as long. As it was in 1968, again in 1983 a consecutive treatise restricted to the foundations would be premature, for at this moment they are under earnest discussion, probing analysis, and powerful attack by several students and from several directions. Because, although in the first edition I expressed some opinions I no longer hold and made some statements I should now recast or even re tract, it seems even yet to offer a simple introduction to some aspects of the field that remain current, I have chosen to reprint it unaltered except for emendation of slips and bettering of the English here and there.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (35 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Hisistorical Introit. The Origins of Rational Thermodynamics
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rational Thermodynamics
Authors: C. Truesdell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5206-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
-
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1984
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9737-6Published: 03 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5206-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: 578
Additional Information: Originally published by McGraw Hill, 1969
Topics: Thermodynamics, Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems