基本信息出版社：Elsevier Science
页码：486 页
出版日期：2006年01月
ISBN：0444519548
条形码：9780444519542
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：热与热物理研究的科学: 热分析综合研究

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Science 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