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The tragicomical history of thermodynamics, 1822-1854

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Producer’s Apology to the Spectators
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    Chapter 2 The Common Inheritance
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    Chapter 3 Prologue: L aplace , B iot , and P oisson
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    Chapter 4 Act I. Workless Dissipation: F ourier
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    Chapter 5 Act II. Dissipationless Work: C arnot
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    Chapter 6 Distracting Interlude: C lapeyron and D uhamel
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    Chapter 7 Act III. Equivalence, Conservation, Interconvertibility: When and of What?
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    Chapter 8 Act IV. Internal Energy: the First Paper of C lausius . Entropy: the First Paper of R ankine
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    Chapter 9 Distracting Interlude: Explosion of Print
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    Chapter 10 Schismatic Act V. Antiplot in a Dark and Empty Theatre: R eech ’s Discovery and Burial of a Too General Theory, and His Failure to Reduce It
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    Chapter 11 Orthodox Act V. K elvin ’s Absolute Temperatures. C lausius ’ Second Paper: Irreversibility and Oracling
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    Chapter 12 Epilogue: Götterdämmerung
Attention for Chapter 5: Act II. Dissipationless Work: C arnot
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Chapter title
Act II. Dissipationless Work: C arnot
Chapter number 5
Book title
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
Published in
ADS, January 1980
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-9444-0_5
Book ISBNs
978-1-4613-9446-4, 978-1-4613-9444-0
Authors

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell

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