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An Outline of Thermodynamical Structure

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New Perspectives in Thermodynamics

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It is my purpose to formulate the laws of classical thermodynamics in a clear and precise way, sufficiently general to include not only traditional applications to reversible and quasi-static processes but also irreversible theories of continuum mechanics. I then go on to express the Clausius inequality in a precise form, in-dependent of the structure of any particular system.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    James Serrin

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Serrin, J. (1986). An Outline of Thermodynamical Structure. In: Serrin, J. (eds) New Perspectives in Thermodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70803-9_1

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