文档介绍：André Thess
The Entropy Principle
Thermodynamics for the Unsatisfied
André Thess
The Entropy
Principle
Thermodynamics
for the Unsatisfied
With 55 Figures and 4 Tables
Author
Prof. Dr. André Thess
Institute of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
Ilmenau University of Technology
. Box 100565
98684 Ilmenau
Germany
ISBN 978-3-642-13348-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936708
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9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Temperature … is a corollary of entropy;
it is epilogue rather than prologue.
Elliott Lieb, Jakob Yngvason
Preface
Is it possible to define entropy in classical thermodynamics in a way that is mathemati-
cally accurate and at the same time easy to understand? I have often asked this ques-
tion to myself first when I was a student and later when I became a professor of me-
chanical engineering and had to teach thermodynamics. Unfortunately, I never got a
satisfactory answer. In textbooks for physicists I often fo