The Dynamics of Heat: A Unified Approach to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (Graduate Texts in Physics) by Hans U. Fuchs (PDF)

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Based on courses for students of science, engineering, and systems science at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences at Winterthur, this text approaches the fundamentals of thermodynamics from the point of view of continuum physics. By describing physical processes in terms of the flow and balance of physical quantities, the author achieves a unified approach to hydraulics, electricity, mechanics and thermodynamics. In this way, it becomes clear that entropy is the fundamental property that is transported in thermal processes (i.e., heat), and that temperature is the corresponding potential. The resulting theory of the creation, flow, and balance of entropy provides the foundation of a dynamical theory of heat. This extensively revised and updated second edition includes new material on dynamical chemical processes, thermoelectricity, and explicit dynamical modeling of thermal and chemical processes. To make the book more useful for courses on thermodynamics and physical chemistry at different levels, coverage of topics is divided into introductory and more advanced and formal treatments. Previous knowledge of thermodynamics is not required, but the reader should be familiar with basic electricity, mechanics, and chemistry and should have some knowledge of elementary calculus. The special feature of the first edition — the integration of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and chemical processes — has been maintained and strengthened. Key Features:· First revised edition of a successful text/reference in fourteen years· More than 25 percent new material· Provides a unified approach to thermodynamics and heat transport in fundamental physical and chemical processes· Includes worked examples, questions, and problem sets for use as a teaching text or to test the reader’s understanding· Includes many system dynamics models of laboratory experiments

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Editorial Reviews: Review From the reviews of the second edition:“A vigorous approach to the exposition of the fundamentals of thermal-fluid sciences by employing a unified approach to thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and electricity. Fuchs (Zurich Univ. of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) argues, with extensive topical depth … can be used to describe the dynamics of thermal energy (heat) transport. This flow and balance of entropy model is featured throughout the text with a system dynamics approach. … an invaluable self-study reference for advanced readers in the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty and professionals in thermal-fluid sciences.” (B. Tao, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011)“This is … a book devoted to a wide description of theories concerning thermodynamics. … the author takes care to explain the theories with lots of figures, illustrations and examples. … Each chapter is completed with many exercises, the main parts of the associated solutions being gathered at the end of the book. … it will be surely accessible to different kinds of students and researchers. Both will find here some deep and modern models which can be applied in very different situations.” (Alian Brillard, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1214, 2011) From the Back Cover Based on courses for students of science, engineering, and systems science at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences at Winterthur, this text approaches the fundamentals of thermodynamics from the point of view of continuum physics. By describing physical processes in terms of the flow and balance of physical quantities, the author achieves a unified approach to hydraulics, electricity, mechanics and thermodynamics. In this way, it becomes clear that entropy is the fundamental property that is transported in thermal processes (i.e., heat), and that temperature is the corresponding potential. The resulting theory of the creation, flow, and balance of entropy provides the foundation of a dynamical theory of heat.This extensively revised and updated second edition includes new material on dynamical chemical processes, thermoelectricity, and explicit dynamical modeling of thermal and chemical processes. To make the book more useful for courses on thermodynamics and physical chemistry at different levels, coverage of topics is divided into introductory and more advanced and formal treatments. Previous knowledge of thermodynamics is not required, but the reader should be familiar with basic electricity, mechanics, and chemistry and should have some knowledge of elementary calculus. The special feature of the first edition – the integration of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and chemical processes – has been maintained and strengthened.Key Features:Presents a unified approach to thermodynamics and heat transport in fundamental physical and chemical processesFirst revised edition of a successful text/reference in fourteen yearsMore than 25 percent new materialProvides worked examples, questions, and problem sets for use as a teaching text or for self testingIncludes many system dynamics models of laboratory experiments

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⭐I am sorry to be so harsh; however, looking back at the damage done by certain poorly written textbooks, I believe it is imperative. As someone who has taken several courses in thermodynamics, thermostatistics, and kinetics, prior to completing a doctorate, I look back on my first dedicated thermodynamics course as a physics undergraduate, taught with Herbert Callen’s classic textbook (and thus utilizing an approach regarded as inferior in the Fuchs text), as a course that was, simultaneously, intuitive, intellectually invigorating, and quite refreshing, in its ability to provide a new and fundamentally important set of insights into our available means of observing and interpreting the world.If I had taken that first course with this Fuchs textbook, instead, (and the present book is introductory material, not graduate level) I am reasonably sure that I would have been psychologically handicapped with regards to this subject matter for quite some time thereafter, if not permanently. If my son were taking a thermodynamics course that relied on this textbook, I would strongly advise him to drop it and stay away from that instructor as a reliable educational resource.The author of this book is essentially standing on the traditional shoulders of giants, while ignoring their nomenclature and the vast body of rigorous exploration that it provides, and instead contriving a poorly underwritten set of new jargon that is vaguely introduced and remains not rigorously defined. The text-based explanations are rambling, as well as inconceivably sloppy and inconsistent in the of use of pregnant terms such as “thermal,” “mechanical,” and “electronic” (e.g., processes inscrutably qualified as “purely thermal” and in others processes are distinguished by “pure heating”). The problems addressed in examples are necessarily rudimentary applications problems, because the assumed approach of redefining (a non-probabalistic) entropy by virtue of a trivial algebraic swapping of variables (and thus inventing a nonphysical, non-conserved, generic “substance”) would inevitably run up against a brick wall, if more advanced problems were addressed.Grouping (and conflating) the utilization of equations of state, in thermodynamics, under the same moniker of “statics” (p. vii, Preface, etc.) in mechanics, (and thereby regarding them as somehow equivalent approaches, or of vaguely similar utility) is as lazy and non-illuminating as the subsequent grouping of entropy under the same class of “substance” that also includes mass and heat (throughout the book). Simply because it works, in a limited manner, under a one-size-fits-all approach of fluid analysis, does not mean that it is a sound heuristic basis for teaching basic thermodynamics, nor that it warrants a full course textbook.

⭐This thermodynamics textbook is different from the typical treatment. Instead of developing entropy as an abstract mathematical concept loosely connected with “disorder”, Fuchs views entropy as a fluid, much like we view charge or momentum as a fluid. It is an odd fluid to be sure, since it is not conserved and is created in dissipative processes. Nevertheless, this approach allows us to bring much of our intuition of fluids to bear on thermo problems. As a result, we can know entropy in both a mathematical sense and an intuitive sense, and thus be more comfortable with the concept. The analogy to a fluid turns out to be a pretty good one. For instance, consider the comparison to electric charge. Currents of charge are driven by gradients of a potential. Currents of entropy are driven by gradients in temperature. Currents of energy are carried along with currents of charge. Likewise, currents of energy are carried with currents of entropy. Once you start thinking in these terms, problems that seemed very complex are suddenly straightforward.The book covers a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, plus there are chapters on related topics. There are many detailed example problems throughout the text, which help drive home the concepts, and there are many problems at the end of each chapter (without solutions). It looks like the book is designed primarily to be a textbook for undergraduate thermodynamics classes, but I bought it for self study and found it very readable and enjoyable.

⭐As mechanical engineer who had to struggle through all the thermos and the like, all I can say that I learned what it is all about after reading this book some years after my graduation (in my real education period).Whenever in doubt this is my reference.

⭐En parcourant le livre, je me demande bien pourquoi il constitue en seconde place les références de thermodynamique d’une section de physique en Suisse, mais je sais que ce n’est pas la faute de l’auteur.En parcourant le livre, j’ai vite vu qu’il concernait des ingénieurs et non des physiciens – on est loin du livre de référence de Callen.Matériellement, il est très beau: papier lisse d’un blanc éclatant, avec illustrations polychromes.Mais l’ouvrage semble baser chaque cas d’expérience sur ce fameux leitmotif des flux, qui me semble un peu réducteur et qui – s’il les flux étaient aussi évoqués dans la référence de thermodynamique – n’avaient pas à être le principe conducteur pour des études de physique.En particulier, en cherchant, je n’ai pas trouvé de réponse à mes cas d’équations d’états. On est principalement dans un livre pour appliquant.

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