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The Principles of Thermodynamics
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The Principles of Thermodynamics

by N.D. Hari Dass
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 56m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from The Principles of Thermodynamics
8
Magnetic Systems
8.1 Introduction
A magnet is such an integral part of our world that it is natural to expect thermody-
namics to play a role in its description, or more generally, in the description of mag-
netic systems. That temperature has a central role to play in magnetism is revealed
by the fact that magnets lose their magnetism when heated. The power of thermo-
dynamics, as we have amply demonstrated so far, is in providing a fairly detailed,
and even quantitative, description of a system without invoking much of the micro-
scopic characterstics of the system. For the thermodynamics of magnetic systems too
we would like to achieve the same. ...
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