thermodynamics

Explains how almost every aspect of driving involves physics, from a car's handling and performance to fundamental concepts such as force, momentum, and energy.

Introduces heat energy, discussing different types of heat and how it is measured.

Chronicles the historical development of modern man's understanding of heat and fire from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, discussing the rise and fall of the caloric theory, the origins of thermodynamics, the kinetic theory of gases, and other topics.

Presents illustrated descriptions of matter and energy, explaining the law of conservation of matter, the law of definite proportions and Gay-Lussac's Law, Meneleyev's periodic law, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and providing a time line, biographical sketches of scientists, and a selected bibliography.

This comprehensive volume examines heat and the related concepts of temperature, thermal energy, and thermodynamics and introduces readers to some of the great minds that furthered our understanding of this fundamental area of physics.

An introduction to thermodynamics that provides information on early beliefs about heat and temperature, advances in thermometry, the laws of thermodynamics, and other related topics.