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Thermodynamics --- History --- History of science - Physics --- History. --- Thermodynamics - History --- History of science - Physics.

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Thermodynamics --- History --- -Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- History. --- -History --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Thermodynamics - History

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Dr. Bernard H. Lavenda has written A New Perspective on Thermodynamics to combine an old look at thermodynamics with a new foundation. The book presents a historical perspective, which unravels the current presentation of thermodynamics found in standard texts, and which emphasizes the fundamental role that Carnot played in the development of thermodynamics. A New Perspective on Thermodynamics will: Chronologically unravel the development of the principles of thermodynamics and how they were conceived by their discoverers Bring the theory of thermodynamics up to the present time and indicate areas of further development with the union of information theory and the theory of means and their inequalities. New areas include nonextensive thermodynamics, the thermodynamics of coding theory, multifractals, and strange attractors. Reintroduce important, yet nearly forgotten, teachings of N.L. Sardi Carnot Highlight conceptual flaws in timely topics such as endoreversible engines, finite-time thermodynamics, geometrization of thermodynamics, and nonequilibrium work from equilibrium free energy differences. Dr. Bernard H. Lavenda is Professor of Physical Chemistry at Universita degli Studi di Camerino, Italy. He is recipient of the 2009 Telesio-Galeli Prize in Physics for his work on irreversible thermodynamics.

Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832. --- Heat-engines -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- Research -- History. --- Thermodynamics. --- Thermodynamics --- Physics --- Mathematics --- Mathematical Statistics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Research --- History. --- Mathematics. --- Energy. --- Probabilities. --- Physics. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Energy, general. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory

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Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineers and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fundamental when taken up later by other hands. There was, moreover, a filial as well as substantive relation between the work of father and son. Sadi applied to the functioning of heat engines the analysis that his father had developed in his study of the operation of ordinary machines. Specifically, Sadi's idea of a reversible process originated in the use his father made of geometric motions in the analysis of machines in general. This unique book shows how the two Carnots influenced each other in their work in the fields of mechanics and thermodynamics, and how future generations of scientists have further benefited from their work.

Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823. --- Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832. --- Mechanics -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- History. --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Engineering - General --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- History. --- Carnot, Lazare, --- Carnot, Sadi, --- Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard, --- Carnot, N. L. S., --- Karno, Sadi, --- Officier au Corps royal du génie, --- Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, --- Carnot, L. N. M. --- Carnot, --- Karno, Lazar, --- Engineering. --- Epistemology. --- Mathematics. --- Engineering, general. --- History of Science. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Math --- Science --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard --- Carnot, N. L. S. --- Karno, Sadi --- Genetic epistemology. --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Engineering --- Science - History --- Genetic epistemology