Volume: 9 Issue: 3 , 9/1/06

Year: 2006

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1. From Watt’s Steam Engine to the Unified Quantum Theory of Mechanics and Thermodynamics

George Hatsopoulos

Page: 97-105

 

2. Entropy: An Inherent, Non-statistical Property of any System in any State

Elias Gyftopoulos

Page: 107-115

 

3. Steepest-Entropy-Ascent Irreversible Relaxation Towards Thermodynamic Equilibrium: The Dynamical Ansatz that Completes the Gyftopoulos-Hatsopoulos Unified Theory with a General Quantal Law of Causal Evolution

Gian Paolo Beretta

Page: 117-128

 

4. Experimental Validation of the Unified Theory

Erol Cubukcu

Page: 129-136

 

5. Teaching Thermodynamics as a Science that Applies to any System (Large or Small) in any State (Stable or Not Stable Equilibrium)

Michael Von Spakovsky , Hameed Metghalchi

Page: 137-146

 

6. Teaching the Quantal Exposition of the Unified Quantum Theory of Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Michael Von Spakovsky

Page: 147-159