Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Dover Books on Physics) by S. R. De Groot (PDF)

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The study of thermodynamics is especially timely today, as its concepts are being applied to problems in biology, biochemistry, electrochemistry, and engineering. This book treats irreversible processes and phenomena — non-equilibrium thermodynamics.S. R. de Groot and P. Mazur, Professors of Theoretical Physics, present a comprehensive and insightful survey of the foundations of the field, providing the only complete discussion of the fluctuating linear theory of irreversible thermodynamics. The application covers a wide range of topics: the theory of diffusion and heat conduction, fluid dynamics, relaxation phenomena, acoustical relaxation, and the behavior of systems in an electromagnetic field.The statistical foundations of non-equilibrium thermodynamics are treated in detail, and there are special sections on fluctuation theory, the theory of stochastic processes, the kinetic theory of gases, and the derivation of the Onsager reciprocal relations. The implications of causality conditions and of dispersion relations are analyzed in depth.Advanced students will find a great number of challenging problems, with hints for their solutions. Chemists will be especially interested in the applications to electrochemistry and the theory of chemical reactions. Physicists, teachers, scholars, biologists, and anyone interested in the principle and modern applications of non-equilibrium thermodynamics will find this classic monograph an invaluable reference.

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⭐Rigorous introduction to the subject.

⭐I have learned very little from this book. It is focused to specific things, and does not give a good background or a broad overview of the topic.

⭐It’s a must read if you’re interested in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Simple, clear, neat!

⭐This is a classic book. However, the equations are very small and difficult to read. This is a problem with Kindle versions of most Dover books.

⭐I Purchased this text to help bridge the gap between Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Applied Kinetics, unfortunately this book is difficult to dive into. The content is excellent, has everything you need to know about irreversible process the problem is just that. I find it hard to just open this text, find a topic, and read about it. The derivations are complete but are lacking steps that a newcomer to the topic might want to see. Format is OK, would have been nice if the publisher updated this edition with less text on each page (i.e. larger font and pages). This is a hit or miss; I think it really depends on your background. If you’re coming from a fluid mechanics background this might be well suited for you.

⭐The book of excellent quality.The product is important for my studies.Use whenever you need to understand the science.

⭐One corner was bent

⭐Comprehensive overview of thermodynamics applied to non-equilibrium systems, based on assuming small parts of the system are themselves approximately at equilibrium. The book derives and discusses transport phenomena and applications. However, the book is dense reading and notation is dated. E.g., using “rot” instead of “curl” for the vector operator. There’s not as much discussion of physical intuition and order of magnitude estimates as I would have liked.

⭐… but let’s face it: the book needs to be worked over after its first publication in 1961! The last edition was in 1983 but since 1961 lots of progress has been made on this field and was not included. Stochastic processes are not mentioned as they were foreign to the majority of (chemical) physicists at that time it seems, instead of using matrix-calculus to handle multinomial Gaussians the authors set up a clumsy tensor notation, nucleation phenomena as an important part of non-equilibrium thermodynamics are completely missing, phase transitions are not even mentioned in the index. The master-equation is mentioned only once in the entire book, namely in the chapter about detailed balance. Otherwise it is a comprehensive summary about non-equilibrium phenomena in thermodynamics and a suitable book to look up certain things and references of original work.

⭐Book is highly numerical and difficult to understand

⭐I bought this books because I’m studying time, it has a great treatment of entropy. Easy to read but paper quality is not as good as I’d like to

⭐must have. great book

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