Research Catalog

Title

A text-book of heat, by H.S. Allen ... and R.S. Maxwell ...

Author

Allen, Herbert Stanley, 1873-1954

Publication

London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1939.

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Details

Additional Authors

Maxwell, R. S.

Description

2 volumes illustrations, diagrams; 23 cm

Subject

• Heat
• Scientists
• heat
• Calor E Temperatura

Note

• Paged continuously.
• "Biographical notes" included in v. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• "References. Modern thermodynamics": v. 1, p. 838.

Contents

v. 1. Historical introduction -- Temperature and its measurement -- Expansion of solids -- Expansion of liquids -- Expansion of gases -- Heat as a measurable quantity -- Thermometric calorimetry -- Latent heat calorimetry -- Change of state: solid-liquid -- Change of state: liquid-vapour -- Continuity of state -- The mechanical equivalent of heat -- Atomic and molecular theory -- The kinetic theory of gases -- The behaviour of real gases -- Work done by a gas -- Liquefaction of gases -- Transference of heat -- Thermal conductivity -- Radiation -- The earth's atmosphere -- Water vapour in the atmosphere -- Thermal units and dimensions -- v. 2. The first law of thermodynamics -- Accurate measurement of Joule's equivalent -- Mathematical formulation of the first law -- The properties of gases -- Transport phenomena in gases -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Entropy -- Thermodynamics of change of state -- Thermodynamic functions and relations -- Applications of thermodynamics -- The approach to the absolute zero -- Mathematical theory of conduction -- Convection -- The measurement of radiation -- The laws of radiation -- The quantum theory of radiation -- The specific heat of solids -- Statistical methods and probability -- Maxwell's distribution law -- Entropy and probability -- Statistical methods and quantum theory.

LCCN

40013530

OCLC

• ocm01319927
• 1319927
• SCSB-425262

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library