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THIS admirable little book, based on lectures given by the author in the University of Cambridge to students of varied scientific interests, contains an account of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and their main applications to the various branches of science. It opens with a brief account of the historical preliminaries leading to the two fundamental laws and the idea of entropy. After an account of the chief characteristic equations for fluids, the usual mathematical relations involving the thermodynamic potentials are discussed and applied to the more elementary cases of simple and compound systems. The book closes with four chapters dealing respectively with osmotic and vapour pressure, thermoelectric phenomena, specific heats, and radiation.
The Principles of Thermodynamics.
By George Birtwistle. Pp. ix + 163. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925.) 7s. 6d. net.
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L., G. The Principles of Thermodynamics . Nature 116, 389 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116389c0
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