Small Systems and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yu. K. Tovbin.
• Authors: Tovbin, Yury Konstantinovich
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Symbols and Abbreviations; 1: Background; 1. Small systems; 2. Thermodynamic parameters of the state; 3. Thermodynamic processes; 4. Basic conditions of equilibrium thermodynamics; 5. The Laws of Thermodynamics; 6. Interphase equilibrium; 7. The problem of the Kelvin equation; 8. Fundamentals of non-equilibrium thermodynamics; 9. Equations of non-equilibrium thermodynamics; 10. Self-consistency of equilibrium and dynamics; 11. Passive Gibbs forces; 12. Necessity of taking into account relaxation times 2: Fundamentals of molecular theory13. Microscopic states of molecules and their description; 14. Continuous functions of molecular distributions; 15. Equations on the continuous functions of distributions; 16. Discrete functions of molecular distributions; 17. Functions of molecular distributions in a discrete-continual description; 18. Connection between thermodynamic functions and correlation functions; 19. Fundamentals of the calculation of non-equilibrium functions of molecular distributions; 20. Kinetic equations in dense phases; 3: Phase separation boundary 21. Thermodynamic values of the surface layer22. The planar interface of macroscopic phases; 23. Molecular description of a planar interface; 24. Molecular description of the curved interface; 25. Properties of equilibrium drops [45]; 26. Three characteristic drop size scales [46]; 27. Criterion for the minimum phase size; 28. Equilibrium drops and phase rule; 4: Small systems and size fluctuations; 29. Small system fluctuations; 30. The discreteness of matter; 31. An ideal system, one component [15]; 32. An ideal system, two components [15]; 33. Non-ideal systems 34. The lower limit of the applicability of thermodynamics [12]35. Micro-non-uniform systems; 5: Non-equilibrium processes; 36. Relaxation times; 37. Motions in three aggregate states; 38. Equations of conservation of molecular properties; 39. The hierarchy of Bogolyubov times; 40. The criterion for local equilibrium; 41. Strongly non-equilibrium states and the structure of transport equations; 42. Relaxation times and passive forces; 43. Non-equilibrium thermodynamic functions; 44. Non-equilibrium surface tension; 45. Relaxation of the interface 46. Influence of fluctuations on the rate of stages47. Fluctuations of rates in small non-ideal reaction systems; 6: Elementary stages of the evolution of the system; 48. The rate of elementary stages; 49. One-site processes; 50. Self-consistency of the rates of single-site stages with an equilibrium distribution of molecules; 51. Two-site processes; 52. Self-consistency of the rates of two-site stages with an equilibrium distribution of molecules; 53. Correlation effects in stage velocities; 54. Accounting for the second and next neighbours (uniform systems)
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: SCPC13; WB043; WB048; WB057; WB063; WB075; Atomic, Molecular, Physical Chemistry; Computational and Theoretical Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Materials Science; Chemical Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Matter & Solid State Physics; Statistical Physics; Thermodynamics & Kinetic Theory; CHEMLIBnetBASE; PHYSICSnetBASE; SCI-TECHnetBASE; CHEMISTRYnetBASE; STMnetBASE; Atomic structure; Molecular structure; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical; Chemistry -- Data processing; Materials science; Chemistry; Physics; Condensed matter; Matter; Solid state physics; Statistical physics; Thermodynamics; Kinetic theory of matter; Atomic structure; Chemistry; Chemistry -- Data processing; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical; Condensed matter; Kinetic theory of matter; Materials science; Matter; Molecular structure; Physics; Solid state physics; Statistical physics; Thermodynamics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429503931; 0429503938; 9780429995392; 0429995393; 9780429995385; 0429995385
• Related ISBNs: 1138587249; 9781138587243
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