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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter T Grandy, jr. |
ISBN: | 9780199546176 0199546177 9780199655434 019965543X |
OCLC Number: | 901914487 |
Description: | 209 p. |
Contents: | 1. Introduction ; 2. Some Clarification from Another Direction ; 3. The Probability Connection ; 4. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics ; 5. The Presumed Extensivity of Entropy ; 6. Nonequilibrium States ; 7. Steady-State Processes ; 8. Sources and Time-Dependent Proceses ; 9. Thermal Driving ; 10. Application to Fluid Dynamics ; 11. Irreversibility, Relaxation, and the Approach to Equilibrium ; 12. Entropy Production and Dissipation Rates ; A. Perturbation Theory ; B. Dissipative Currents and Galilean Invariance ; C. Analytic Continuation of Covariance Functions |
Series Title: | The international series of monographs on physics, 141 |
Responsibility: | Walter T. Grandy [aut]. |
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It [the book] seems to be very well done; certainly, the prose is excellent and the ideas very thought provoking. * F.W Taylor, University of Oxford, Contemporary Science *
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