Front Cover; Physical Principles of Chemical Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION; PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION; INTRODUCTION; GENERAL LITERATURE SURVEY; TERMINOLOGY; CHAPTER 1. MASS AND ENERGY BALANCES; 1.1. Mass and Energy-the Material Balance; 1.2. The Composition of Mixtures and the Mixing (Lever) Rule; 1.3. Representation of Two- and Three-component Systems; 1.4. Determination of Mixture Composition Using the Lever Rule; 1.5. Which Unit: kg, kmole, or Nm3?; 1.6. The CGS, Technical, SI, and English-American Systems of Units.

1.7. Units of Pressure, Energy, and Power. Standard Conditions 1.8. Dimensionally Homogeneous and Dimensional Equations; 1.9. Internal Energy and Enthalpy; 1.10. Notes on Dealing with Partial Derivatives; 1.11. Heat Capacity and Specific Heat; 1.12. The h-w Diagram and the Lever Rule for Adiabatic Mixing; 1.13. The Energy Balance and Energy Flow Diagram; 1.14. Introduction to Heat Transfer; 1.15. The Heat Exchanger; CHAPTER 2. CONCEPT AND USE OF ENTROPY; 2.1. Ordered and Disordered Energy; 2.2. The Differential dS of the Entropy is an Exact Differential.

2.3. Changes of State 2.4. Phase Diagrams; 2.5. The Reciprocating Compressor; 2.6. Thermodynamic mean Temperature; 2.7. Availability in Steady Flow or Exergy; 2.8. What Work can be Produced Theoretically and Practically on Combustion?; 2.9. The Exergy Flow Diagram; 2.10. Efficiency, Performance Coefficient, and Reversibility ; 2.11. Refrigerating Plants and Heat Pumps; 2.12. First Example of a Thermodynamic Analysis : Evaporation of Salt Solutions; 2.13. Second Example of a Thermodynamic Analysis: Liquefaction of Air; 2.14. Thermodynamics and Economy.

* 2.15. Unsteady ProcessesCHAPTER 3. PROBABILITY THEORY AND THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; 3.1. Introduction to Probability Theory; 3.2. Law of Large Numbers; 3.3. Primitive Model of a Highly Diluted Gas; 3.4. Mixtures of Ideal Gases; 3.5. Equilibrium, Equipartition Theorem, and an Introduction to the Theory of Specific Heats; 3.6. Distribution Functions; 3.7. The Earth's Gravitational Field as a ""Velocity Sieve""; 3.8. Calculation of Maxwell's Velocity Distribution Function in one Direction from the Barometric Height Formula.

3.9. Maxwell's Velocity Distribution Law in Three Directions 3.10. The Boltzmann Factor; 3.11. Number of Wall Collisions and the Rate of Evaporation; 3.12. The Mean Free Path; 3.13. Viscous Flow, Heat Conduction, Diffusion; 3.14. Viscosity, Thermal Conductivity, and Diffusivity in an Ideal Gas; 3.15. Transport Processes in Case of a Large Mean Free Path; 3.16. Brownian Movement, Limits of Measurement Accuracy, and Fluctuations; * 3.17. Diffusion and the Binomial Coefficients; 3.18. Error Function; 3.19. Entropy, Disorder, and Probability; CHAPTER 4. PHYSICS OF SOLIDS.