TY - CHAP AU - Wassim M. Haddad AU - Sergey G. Nersesov AU - VijaySekhar Chellaboina ED - Mizutani Tadashi Y1 - 2011-01-14 PY - 2011 T1 - Heat Flow, Work Energy, Chemical Reactions, and Thermodynamics: a Dynamical Systems Perspective N2 - Progress of thermodynamics has been stimulated by the findings of a variety of fields of science and technology. The principles of thermodynamics are so general that the application is widespread to such fields as solid state physics, chemistry, biology, astronomical science, materials science, and chemical engineering. The contents of this book should be of help to many scientists and engineers. BT - Thermodynamics SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/13750 DO - 10.5772/13750 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -