Table of Contents

Preface 1. How to Study with This Book 2. Kinematics and Dynamics 3. Energy 4. Stability of Equilibrium 5. Adiabatic Availability 6. Available Energy 7. Entropy 8. Stable-Equilibrium-State Principle 9. Temperature 10. Total Potentials 11. Pressure 12. Work and Heat 13. Energy versus Entropy Graphs 14. Summary of Basic Concepts 15. Heat Engines 16. Systems with Volume as the Only Parameter 17. Simple Systems 18. Phase Rule 19. Thermophysical Properties of Pure Substances 20. Ideal Gases, Liquids, and Solids 21. Equations of State 22. Bulk Flow 23. Conversion Devices 24. Availability Functions 25. Energy Conversion Systems 26. Thermophysical Properties of Mixtures 27. Ideal-Gas Mixtures and Solutions 28. Nonideal Mixtures 29. Chemical Reactions 30. Chemical Equilibrium 31. Combustion Epilogue Physical Constants and Unit Conversion Tables Tables of Properties Solutions to Problems Index

About the Author

Elias P. Gyftopoulos received his doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT in 1958. He is MIT's Ford Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and of Nuclear Engineering. Gian Paolo Beretta was awarded a doctorate in engineering at MIT in 1981. A full Professor of Thermal Sciences at Brescia University, he is a frequent visiting professor at MIT.