Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies: A Generalized Approach to Thermal AnalysisScience of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics. It involves Greek philosophical views and their impact on the development of contemporary ideas. Covered topics include: • the concept of heat • thermometry and calorimetry • early concepts of temperature and its gradients • non-equilibrium and quantum thermodynamics • chemical kinetics • entropy, order and information • thermal science applied to economy(econophysics), ecosystems, and process dynamics or mesoscopic scales (quantum diffusion) • importance of energy science and its influence to societal life |
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Contents
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| 44 | |
FIRE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL AND ALCHEMICAL ARCHETYPE | 80 |
CONCEPT OF HEAT IN THE RENAISSANCE AND NEW AGE | 108 |
UNDERSTANDING HEAT TEMPERATURE AND GRADIENTS | 140 |
HEAT ENTROPY AND INFORMATION | 168 |
THERMODYNAMICS AND THERMOSTATICS | 204 |
THERMODYNAMICS ECONOPHYSICS ECOSYSTEMS AND SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR | 230 |
NONISOTHERMAL KINETICS BY THERMAL ANALYSIS | 318 |
THERMOMETRY AND CALORIMETRY | 344 |
THERMOPHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL | 378 |
AFTERWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 412 |
LITERATURE | 420 |
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APPENDIX | 453 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 472 |
THERMAL PHYSICS OF PROCESSES DYNAMICS | 251 |
MODELING REACTION MECHANISM THE USE OF EUCLIDIAN AND FRACTAL GEOMETRY | 276 |
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| Title | Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies: A Generalized Approach to Thermal Analysis |
| Author | Jaroslav Sestak |
| Publisher | Elsevier, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0080459765, 9780080459769 |
| Length | 486 pages |
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