Kinetic theory. Volume 2, Irreversible processes / by S.G. Brush.

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Main Author: Brush, Stephen G. (Author)
Other title:Irreversible processes.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1966.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the Final Distribution of Velocity among the Molecules of Two Systems acting on one another according to any Law of ForceVariation of Functions of the Velocity due to encounters between the Molecules; On the Action of External Forces on a System of Moving Molecules; Theory of a Medium composed of Moving Molecules; Transference of Quantities across a Plane Area; (a) Transference of Matter across a Plane-Velocity of the Fluid; (ß) Transference of Momentum across a Plane-System of Pressures at any point of the Fluid; Energy in the Medium-Actual Heat.
  • v. The molecules do not make a large number of vibrations between one collision and the nextVI. Solution of equation (81) and calculation of the entropy; CHAPTER 3. The Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy; SUMMARY; Appendix; CHAPTER 4. On the Relation of a General Mechanical Theorem to the Second Law of Thermodynamics; SUMMARY; CHAPTER 5. On the Three-body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics; SUMMARY; 1. Notations and definitions; 8. Use of integral invariants; CHAPTER 6. Mechanism and Experience; SUMMARY; CHAPTER 7. On a Theorem of Dynamics and the Mechanical Theory of Heat.