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This site and the book are under development. Lessons and exercises will be added gradually.
Planned content: A progressive course in thermodynamics, from the founding principles to more advanced developments.
About This Book
Warning: this book is primarily written in French; the English version is automatically translated using Claude Sonnet 4.6.
The first part is an undergraduate course with many worked exercises, covering the vocabulary, formalism, and fundamental principles of thermodynamics, the study of gases and phase transitions, and heat engines and thermal cycles. The following parts explore more advanced topics: differential geometry in thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, endoreversibility, climate physics, thermoelectricity, near-equilibrium thermodynamics (Onsager relations, etc.), and quantum thermodynamics.
The text develops thermodynamics from first principles. Proofs are given in full whenever they clarify the physics, and many worked examples complement the theoretical exposition.
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About the Author
Jean-Philippe Bruneton is a physicist at Université Paris Cité, France. His research interests include the laws of gravitation, quantum mechanics and its foundations, and symbolic regression as a machine learning task. This book grew from lecture notes developed over many years of teaching at graduate and advanced undergraduate level.
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