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The purpose of this paper1 is to bridge the gap between calculus as taught in elemen-tary mathematics courses, and calculus as ap-plied in the first courses on thermodynamics. Many beginners are baffled by two discrepancies.
In preparing the final draft of this paper the author has profited by suggestions from Burton D. Fried and Leo A. Schmidt of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and from Dr. Eric Lype of the Armour Research Foundation. Part of the content which was presented in lectures at the University of Notre Dame, is incorporated in the Master’s thesis of Vincent J. Cushing (1946). An abstract of a paper “ The use of differentials in thermodynamics” was published in Am. Math. Monthly56, 210 (1949)
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Menger, K. (2003). The Mathematics of Elementary Thermodynamics. In: Schweizer, B., et al. Selecta Mathematica. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6045-9_30
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