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Lecture Notes in Advanced Thermodynamics

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1 Introduction<br />

1.1 Subject of thermodynamics<br />

What is the subject of thermodynamics?<br />

– elementary approach: physics of heat, temperature and energy<br />

→ eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g advantage: perform<strong>in</strong>g practical calculations of energy<br />

transfer processes (classical thermodynamics course)<br />

– advanced level: general background and framework of macroscopic<br />

physics<br />

→ eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g advantage: better understand<strong>in</strong>g of other macroscopic<br />

physics courses (solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, classical thermodynamics,<br />

electrodynamics, physical chemistry)<br />

1.2 Mathematical models <strong>in</strong> thermodynamics<br />

1.2.1 Basic concepts<br />

thermodynamic system : a mathematical abstraction which is used for<br />

modell<strong>in</strong>g a piece of reality, a system is a collection of <strong>in</strong>teract<strong>in</strong>g bodies<br />

thermodynamic body<br />

: the smallest <strong>in</strong>dividual piece of a system<br />

state : the set of all pieces of <strong>in</strong>formation which determ<strong>in</strong>es our whole<br />

knowledge from the system, time and space dependent.<br />

state variables : mathematical objects which are used to represent the<br />

state, they can be numbers, functions, etc. . .<br />

1.2.2 Classification of models<br />

different areas of thermodynamics → different features of state variables<br />

phenomenology - statistics<br />

– phenomenological: state variables are related directly to macroscopic<br />

features of the material<br />

– statistical: state variables are related to the behaviour of the microscopic<br />

particles, and macroscopic features are derived from them by<br />

statistical methods (not covered <strong>in</strong> this subject)<br />

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