Thermodynamics: Principles Characterizing Physical and Chemical Processes

This book provides a concise overview of thermodynamics, and is written in a manner which makes the difficult subject matter understandable. Thermodynamics, Second Edition is systematic in its presentation and covers many subjects that are generally not dealt with in competing books such as: Caratheodory's approach to the Second Law, the general theory of phase transitions, the origin of phase diagrams, the treatment of matter subjected to a variety of external fields, and the subject of ir...