Introduction to chemical thermodynamics (Davies, William G.)

Introduction to Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

3 Constitutive equations 18 3.1 Phenomenological constitutive equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2 Curie Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.3 Onsager relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.4 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.5 Minimum Entropy production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

An Introduction to the Work of William

The papers reprinted here from the published work of William W. Rozeboom were selected to introduce readers to his notion of “explanatory induction” (EI), a fundamental form of inference that he took to be a major facet of human intelligence, whether in the rudimentary forms it takes in the “common-sense” inferences we make every day without a second thought, or in the more advanced and selfcon...

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Introduction to Molecular Simulation and Statistical Thermodynamics

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Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics *

In this lecture we briefly review the definition, consequences and applications of an entropy, Sq, which generalizes the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy SBG (S1 = SBG), basis of the usual statistical mechanics, well known to be applicable whenever ergodicity is satisfied at the microscopic dynamical level. Such entropy Sq is based on the notion of q-exponential and presents properties not shared ...