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ie Thermodynamics § a PB tnira ecition | aha | Abhay K. Jain Jaf As. 225.00 THERMODYNAMICS: A Core Course, 3rd ed. R.C. Srivastava, Subit K. Saha and Abhay K. Jain © 2007 by Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing from the publisher, ISBN-978-81-203-3296-6 The export rights of this book are vested solely with the publisher. Fourth Printing (Third Edition) oo “ August, 2007 Published by Asoke K. Ghosh, Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, M-97, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110001 and Printed by Meenakshi Art Printers, Delhi-110006, Contents Preface xi Preface to the First Edition xiii Chapter 1 The Nature and Scope of Thermodynamics 1-3 1.1 The Nature of Thermodynamics | 1.2__Limitations and Scope _2 Questions 3 Chapter 2 Important Terminologies in Thermodynamics 4-16 2.1 The System 4 2.2 uilibrium and Steady State 6 2.3, Energy 8 2.4 Extensive and Intensive Properties 9 2.5 State Functions 9 2.6 Work 10 2.7__Heat and Temperature 12 2.8 Heat Capacity 13 2.9 Reversible Processes 14 2.10 Sign Convention 15 Questions 15 Exercises 16 Chapter 3 The First Law of Thermodynamics 17-46 3.1 Balance Sheet of Energy Transactions 17 3.2 Heat Change at Constant Pressure—Enthalpy 19 3.3 Heat Change at Constant Volume 20 3.4 Relationship between Q, and Q, 20 3.5 Heat Capacities: C, and C, 21 3.6 Joule-Thomson Experiment 24 3.7__Joule-Thomson Coefficient for an Ideal Gas 27 3.8 Thermochemistry 28 3.9__ Thermochemical Equations 29 3.10 Heat of Formation 30 3.1L Thermochemical Implications of the First Law 33 3.12_ Variation of Reaction Heats with Temperature 36 3.13_ Applications of Thermochemical Data 39 3.14 Lattice Enthalpy 41 3.15 Flame and Explosion Temperature 43 Questions 45 Exercises 45 vil

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