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ALTHOUGH Prof Planck's “Thermodynamics” first appeared thirty years ago, it remains still one of the clearest books on the subject at the present day. The eighth edition has 17 sections and about 40 pages more than the first, but the sections up to 280 are numbered as before. The additional sections deal with Nernsts theorem and its consequences. T is now used for the absolute temperature instead of ζ, certain proofs formerly based on the properties of a perfect gas have been made general, and the treatment of electrolytes has been improved. The new edition is well printed, but the paper of it compares unfavourably with that of the first edition.
Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik.
Prof. Dr.
Max
Planck
Von. Achte Auflage. Pp. x + 287. (Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1927.)
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Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik . Nature 120, 837 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120837d0
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