This classic sets forth the fundamentals of thermodynamics clearly and simply enough to be understood by a beginning student, yet with enough subtlety and depth of thought to appeal also to more advanced readers. It elucidates fundamentals of kinetic theory and illustrates the Second Law of Thermodynamics with "Maxwell’s demon."
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Published in 1871, this masterly account of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics derived the 'Maxwell relations', which still feature in every standard thermodynamics text. The book also introduced the famous and controversial idea soon to be known as Maxwell's 'demon', which seemed to contradict the second law of thermodynamics.
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Maxwell does a great job of explaining thermodynamics in a manner that is clear to anyone with a term of physics. This was written at a time when people took the time to show all of the steps.
Maxwell is one of the brightest stars of the physics universe and everything we do in our current culture is based on his work.
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