Publication year: 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-32851-3
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The book opens with thermodynamics as universal science and with entropy as carrier of thermal power, and goes on to consider the effects of friction, including the Carnot cycle. Next, it treats systems with variable mass and variable mass flow and extends the concepts to chemical reactions and osmosis.
Subject: Engineering, Bondgraphs, Entropy, dynamics, friction, information theory, simulation, systems engineering, thermodynamics