Secondary effects in irreversible thermodynamics

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Preface
2. Main ideas in the axiomatics of thermodynamics
3. On subadditivity and convexity properties of thermodynamic functions
4. The extension of classical phenomenological thermodynamics to open systems (the chemical potential)
5. General definition of the perfect gas concept
6. Resolution of the hierarchy of many-body distribution functions
7. The thermodynamics of phase equilibrium: from the phase rule to the scaling laws
8. Thermodynamics of surface phenomena
9. Non-hydrostatic thermodynamics of chemical and phase changes
10. Some aspects of the thermodynamic limit
11. Determination of the free volume and the entropy by a Monte Carlo method
12. The thermodynamic description of phase transitions
13. Some recent results in the theory of fading memory
14. A new systematic approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics
15. On the validity of the Clausius-Duhem inequality
16. On the rational foundations of the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of ordinary fluid mixtures
17. Thermodynamic restrictions in non-linear rate type materials
18. The concept of irreversibility in statistical mechanics
19. Thermodynamic theory of stability, structure and fluctuations
20. Stochastic processes and the quantum evolution of states
21. Irreversibility in non-linear oscillator systems
22. Entropy oscillation and the H theorem for finite segments of infinite, coupled-harmonic-oscillator chains
23. Secondary effects in irreversible thermodynamics
24. Extreme régimes of temperature and pressure in astrophysics
25. Time asymmetry in electrodynamics and cosmology
26. Cosmic evolution and thermodynamic irreversibility
27. Thermodynamics of hyperon stars
28. Carnot cycles for general relativistic systems
29. Ensemble versus time average probabilities in relativistic statistical mechanics
30. Variational formulation of relativistic fluid thermodynamics
31. An elementary introduction to entropy via irreversibility
32. A simple, unified approach to the first and second laws of thermodynamics
33. Principles of classical thermodynamics
34. Thermodynamics of solids under stress
35. The laws of thermodynamics
36. Temporal asymmetry in thermodynamics and cosmology
37. Discussion on the teaching of thermodynamics
38. A Report on the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968