Now in its eighth edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics continues to offer a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics, while retaining an engineering perspective. With ...

Roman Frigg (LSE Philosophy) and David A. Lavis (King’s College) have published their new book “The Fundamentals of Thermodynamics” with Springer Nature. The new book takes a look at the foundational ...

IN the second edition, the general plan of this book lias been retained, but several chapters have been rearranged and partly rewritten. This revision has improved the utility of tho book. About fifty ...

If someone asked you “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would be most ...

One of the most basic quantities in thermodynamics is the Helmholtz free energy In this article, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for thermodynamical state-to-state transitions, which are ...