这本书概述了经典热力学、统计热力学、非平衡态和稳态热力学。这本综合性的著作是除专业专著之外的第一本探讨流动系统和不可逆热力学的书，适用于化学、物理、生物物理学和工程专业的热力学高级本科或研究生入门课程。这些课程的讲师将在本书中发现透明的模型，这些模型澄清了一系列复杂的物理和数学概念，包括
冷却性质与溶液热力学
平衡体系的化学势
连续能量系统
通过统计化学动力学向非平衡体系过渡
玻色-爱因斯坦统计与单分子反应速率理论
具有时间和空间依赖性的不可逆热力学
基本稳态过程。
Energy and Entropy: Equilibrium to Stationary States
This book is an overview of classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, non-equilibrium and stationary state thermodynamics. This comprehensive work is the first book outside of specialized monographs to approach flow systems and irreversible thermodynamics for advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate courses in thermodynamics in chemistry, physics, biophysics, and engineering programs. Instructors for those courses will find in this book transparent models that clarify a broad range of difficult physical and mathematical concepts, including
Cooligative properties and solution thermodynamics
Chemical potential for equilibrium systems
Continuous energy systems
Transition to non-equilibrium systems through statistical chemical kinetics
Bose–Einstein statistics in conjunction with unimolecular reaction rate theory
Irreversible thermodynamics with both time and spatial dependence
Basic stationary state processes.
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