Accession Number:

AD0759970

Title:

Entropy and Temperature,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Biblarz,Oscar

Report Date:

1972-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

The article is written in the style of Scientific American. A minimum of mathematics is used in the presentation of a new approach to the understanding of the Second Law of thermodynamics. The intended readers are engineering students who have been exposed to a standard version of undergraduate thermodynamics such as AE 2042. It is shown here that, by extending the use of entropy and of temperature to nonequilibrium situations, a more complete formulation of the Second Law is possible. Applications of the foegoing concept to fluid flow, to chemical reactions, and to lasers are presented. Author

Descriptors:

• (*ENTROPY
• NONEQUILIBRIUM FLOW)
• TEMPERATURE
• HEAT TRANSFER
• FLUID FLOW
• CHEMICAL REACTIONS
• LASERS

Subject Categories:

• Thermodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE