Thermal analysis and thermodynamic properties of solids /
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| Author / Creator: | Šesták, Jaroslav, 1938- author. |
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2021. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and color). |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12616992 |
Table of Contents:
- Front cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgment
- About the Author
- Forward
- Introduction: Anniversary of the half century development and formation of a new field of thermal analysis
- Historical prologue
- Eastern stream of thermoanalytical progression and the foundation of Journal of Thermal Analysis
- The Western course of thermal analysis advancement and foundation of Thermochimica Acta
- Word in Conclusion
- Glossary of terms, definitions and symbols
- Chapter 1 Thermophysical examinations, experimental set-ups, sample and temperature control
- 1.1 Exploring the environment and scale dimensions
- 1.2 Thermal measurements, modes of assessment and thermal methods grouping
- 1.3 Temperature control
- 1.4 Characterisation of experimental curves
- 1.5 Comments on the thermoanalytical sample
- 1.6 Particularities of further temperature modulation
- Chapter 2 Understanding of temperature, heat, gradients and related thermodynamics
- 2.1 A historical look at the development of the temperature concept
- 2.2 What is temperature, its scope and how to specify its thermodynamic description: concept of tempericity
- 2.3 Varying temperature depending on the measurement procedure used and the related new view of the phase diagram kinetics
- 2.4 Heat transfer, Newton cooling law and sample heat inertia
- 2.5 Thermal inertia values calculated for temperature measurement
- 2.6 Illustrative approach to temperature fields developed inside an inert infinite cylinder
- 2.7 Response differential curves for temperature sensor location in temperature gradients
- 2.8 Discussion on temperature and its physical and operational use
- 2.9Appendix: A generalised view on temperature from the cosmic macro-dimension to the quantum micro-world
- Chapter 3 Phenomenological approach to the caloric theory of heat: An alternative thermodynamics
- 3.1 Fire as a manufacturing tool and its non-matter disposition as caloric
- 3.2 Classical thermodynamics subsist in a phenomenological theory
- 3.3 Heat alike entropy: introduction of caloric theory
- 3.4 Constitutive relations and fundamental laws of thermodynamics within caloric theory
- 3.5 Resolution and determination of caloric
- 3.6 Efficiency of heat engines, dynamic and caloric theory
- Chapter 4 Textbook thermodynamics as thermostatics
- 4.1 Introduction to basic logic of textbook thermodynamics
- 4.2 Force field and measurable deformations
- 4.3 Principles of thermodynamic alternation reaching measurable quantities
- 4.4 Chemical reactions
- 4.5 Heterogeneous systems and the effect of surface energy
- 4.6 Equilibria and impact of Clapeyron equations
- 4.7 Ideal and real solid solutions, phase diagrams