James Clerk Maxwell

Theory of Heat

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1871, this is Maxwell's masterly account of the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781108032018
• ISBN-10: 110803201X
• Artikelnr.: 33625812

Inhaltsangabe

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.