Thermodynamics

The basic theory of thermodynamics is treated in the book using ideal gas as an example. A clear explanation for the quantity entropy is given in the book. Analytic formulas for the mutual functional dependence of the quantities volume, pressure, temperature and entropy are given in the book in the case of an ideal gas. A thorough treatment of ideal gas thermodynamic processes is presented in the book. In a process two quantities are given as functions of time and other quantities are calculated as functions of time. I hope that the thorough treatment helps especially those people (for example students) who take their first steps in learning thermodynamics. The book includes a list of a computer program that calculates basic thermodynamic processes for an ideal gas. An example calculation for every process is presented in the book - input file is given and the result is presented as curves. Every curve is given a thorough description.

U. Kivi has university examination (civil engineer) with major subject in physics and minor subject in mathematics. He has made thermodynamic calculations with relation to nuclear power station accidents. Due to his background the style of the writer is very pragmatic and the description of thermodynamic processes is very thorough in books 'Termodynamiikka' and 'Thermodynamics'. The writer is interested in relativity theory (books 'Painovoima' and 'Gravitation') but is not at all professional in that field. Because Finnish name 'Uuno' means one in Italy or ein in Germany and name 'Kivi' means stein in Germany, pseudonym 'Uuno Kivi' may be interpreted as Einstein. Uuno means also stupid in Finnish, so that if the reader doesn't like the contents of the books he/she may interpret the pseudonym as 'stupid as a stone'.