商品簡介
Much of chemistry today has become threaded by programming, computation, and data analysis, and Graham (Loyola U., Chicago) believes the thermodynamic curriculum should reflect that change better by expanding the scope of fundamental and applications of elementary models. If energy is a system's capacity for performing work and transferring heat, he says, then information is the capacity for controlling how the work is performed and heat is exchanged. He offers a fresh perspective on a few select topics, such as state transformation, heat and work exchanges, and chemical reactions. The treatment is suitable for intermediate and advanced students. Exercises are provided for classroom use or self-study. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Daniel J. Graham is with the Department of Chemistry at Loyola University in Chicago.
