Overview
- Intensively revised textbook with a new chapter on statistical thermodynamics and extensive new materials in many existing chapters
- Includes many worked out problems and wide ranging applications to problems in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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This book presents the fundamental principles of Classical thermodynamics, supplemented by an overview of Statistical Thermodynamics, and explores their applications to a wide variety of problems in the Earth and Planetary sciences, spanning the range from the Earth’s core, mantle and crust, aqueous solutions and fluid-rock interactions to solar nebula, terrestrial planets and asteroids. The topics covered include the laws of classical thermodynamics, microscopic foundations of thermodynamic properties, critical phenomena and near-critical processes, equations of state, phase transitions and phase equilibria, the Earth’s interior and adiabatic processes, terrestrial magma ocean, thermodynamics of solutions, element and stable isotope fractionations, electrolyte solutions and electrochemistry, osmotic processes, surface effects, entropy production and kinetic implications, thermodynamics of chemical diffusion, estimation of thermochemical properties, and mathematicalmethods of classical thermodynamics. There is also a wealth of solved problems relating to both fundamental concepts and applications to natural processes.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jibamitra Ganguly was educated in India (Calcutta University and Jadavpur University) and the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Geophysical Sciences. This was followed by post-doctoral research at the Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and an appointment to a faculty position at the University of Arizona, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus of Geosciences. His research, which covers a wide range of areas in the Earth and Planetary sciences, has been characterized by an effective blend of experimental, theoretical and observational studies to develop quantitative understanding of natural processes. Prof. Ganguly co-authored (with Prof. S. K. Saxena) the book Mixtures and Mineral Reactions, and edited the volume Diffusion, Atomic Ordering and Mass Transport. He is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Geophysical Union, and received the Alexander von Humboldt research prize for his contributions to thermodynamic and diffusion kinetic studies of natural systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Authors: Jibamitra Ganguly
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20879-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20878-3Published: 22 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20881-3Published: 25 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20879-0Published: 21 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 610
Number of Illustrations: 241 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Electrochemistry