Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Biophysics / Peter F. Curran, A. Katchalsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katchalsky, A., author.

Curran, Peter F., author.

Series:

Harvard Books in Biophysics

Harvard Books in Biophysics ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biophysics.

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

Local Subjects:

Biophysics.

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

CHAPTER 2. THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

CHAPTER 3. THE GIBBS EQUATION

CHAPTER 4. ENTROPY CHANGE IN IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES

CHAPTER 5. ISOTHERMAL EQUILIBRIA AND CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS

CHAPTER 6. FLOWS AND FORCES IN THE THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES

CHAPTER 7. ENTROPY PRODUCTION IN CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 8. THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EQUATIONS RELATING FLOWS AND FORCES; ONSAGER'S LAW

CHAPTER 9 ISOTHERMAL DIFFUSION AND SEDIMENTATION

CHAPTER 10. MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY TO NONELECTROLYTES: DISCONTINUOUS SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 11. TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS CONTAINING ELECTROLYTES: IONIC CONDUCTANCE AND DIFFUSION

CHAPTER 12. ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN DISCONTINUOUS SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 13. SYSTEMS WITH TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS

CHAPTER 14. RELATIONS BETWEEN CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND DIFFUSION PROCESSES

CHAPTER 15. STATISTICAL DERIVATION OF ONSAGER'S LAW

CHAPTER 16. STATIONARY STATES: THE PRINCIPLE OF MINIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION

LIST OF SYMBOLS

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-49412-1

OCLC:

1013956011