The Concepts and Logic of Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines
Mon but n'a jamais be de m'occuper des ces matieres comme physicien, mais seulement comme /ogicien ... F. REECH, 1856 I do not think it possible to write the history of a science until that science itself shall have been understood, thanks to a clear, exp
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c. Truesdell and S. Bharatha The Concepts and Logic of
Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines Rigorously Constructed upon the Foundation Laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech
Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell, III
Subramanyam Bharatha
The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose, III, 1919The concepts and logic of classical thermodynamics as a theory of heat engines, rigorously constructed upon the foundation laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech. (Texts and monographs in physics) Bibliography: p. Includes indices. 1. Thermodynamics. 2. Thermodynamics-History. 3. Heat engines. I. Bharatha, Subramanyam, 1945- joint author. II. Title: The concepts and logic of classical thermodynamics as a theory of heat engines ... QC311.T79 536'.7 76-48115 Printed on acid-free paper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form without written permission from Springer-Verlag.
© 1977 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1977 9 8 7 6 543 2 ISBN-13: 978-3-642-81079-4
001: 10.1007/978-3-642-81077-0
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-81077-0
May this tractate be received as an expression of respectful gratitude for the legacy of the great French thermodynamicists
CARNOT, REECH, DUHEM.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND PRINTING There are three major failings in the text reprinted here: 1. Only the ideal-gas scale of temperature is considered. 2. Axiom II requires aKy/ae to exist. Such an assumption is acceptable for anyone particular scale but cannot be preserved under changes of empirical scale. 3. The historical references are not complete.
In the ten years since the first printing appeared I have removed these three deficiencies. For the historical side in full detail down to 1854, see The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics 1822-1854 (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1980). For an outline of part of the work done after 1854, see' 'The origins of rational thermodynamics", pages 1-56 of Rational Thermodynamics, Second Edition (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984); and "What did Gibbs and Caratheodory leave us about thermodynamics?", pages 101-134 of New Perspectives in Thermodynamics, edited by J. SERRIN (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986). The first and second shortcomings are removed in the works listed below in order of decreasing recency: "Classical thermodynamics cleansed and cured" (1985), pages 265-291 of Contributi del centro Linceo interdisciplinare di Scienze Matematiche e loro applicazioni No. 76, Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1986. (A corrected and revised text completed in 1987 may be had from me on request.) "Thermodynamics for beginners", pages 82-106 of Rational Thermodynamics, Second Ed
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